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...Justice is backing Ellerth's appeal, which runs against the argument of the President's private attorney," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "The Justice Department is trying to counter what it perceives to be an anti-plaintiff drift in the courts." Needless to say, this would be one administration victory unlikely to get the boss lighting up a stogie...
...this changed in 1992 when the High Court of Australia dismissed "terra nullius" as a doctrine based on misinformation and found that it was possible for native land title to have survived. The Mabo decision, as it had come to be know, took its name from the principal plaintiff in the case, Eddie Mabo, who came from the Murray Islands off the coast of northern Queensland. The court upheld this particular claim to native land title, and indicated that mainland Aborigines could similarly argue a case for such title...
...cases of alleged sexual harassment--so painful, so private, so often unknowable--Americans have grown accustomed to weighing the word of one defendant against that of one plaintiff, the steadfast denial against the angry accusation: he said, she said. But last week, in the matter of Jones v. Clinton, the accusers avalanched on the accused. Once, twice, three times now, a woman has sworn under oath that she had one or more sexual encounters with Bill Clinton and then got pressured to cover it up; each time the President has denied the charge. In each case someone is lying...
...Jones' office say they knew of her encounter with Clinton or did anything to her because Clinton or an agent of his told them to. Jones' lawyers concede as much in the filing, which concludes only that "a jury could reasonably draw the inference that Mr. Clinton caused Plaintiff to suffer adverse employment action." In fact, that would not be an inference. It would be a guess...
...University will now enter a period of discovery with the plaintiff--the Ho family--in which both sides will exchange documents and compile depositions...