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That's where the trouble started. Sexual-harassment suits have a tendency to spiral out of control because the relaxed rules of civil discovery permit lawyers for the plaintiff to rummage freely through the defendant's sexual history, to try to prove a pattern of "unwanted advances." In criminal trials involving serious sexual allegations, such as rape, inquiries into the sexual history of the alleged victim and the defendant are more carefully limited...
...attorneys here are talking awfully tough. "This is the most egregious case I've ever seen," says Chase-Riboud's attorney, who is asking for $10 million in damages and threatening to seek an injunction to block the film's release. Spielberg's lawyer retorts that the plaintiff is "nuts" and that her novel is "wordy, dull, confusing and phony." So there...
...much anticipated lawsuit by DreamWorks SKG partner JEFFREY KATZENBERG against his former employer, Walt Disney Co., goes to court. Katzenberg says Disney owes him 2% of all profits generated by his work. Disney denies this, and a loss will be costly for the studio. Early estimates from the plaintiff's camp put that amount around $250 million. Now, following court-ordered discovery detailing Disney's finances and profits, projections run between $300 million and $500 million--much more than the $125 million payout to ousted executive Mike Ovitz...
...path of a train. This premise sets Groundlings rolling, and the rest of the one-act play is devoted to Roulleau's Kafka-esque trial. The ensuing action alternates between the troupe's re-enactment of Hamlet's murders, which the prosecution displays in the form of a plaintiff's exhibit, and Roulleau's desperate defense...
...court rules in favor of the plaintiff, the representative's company would lose less than 5 percent of its total business...