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...power and -- as an extra added attraction -- that other American obsession, dieting. It's the reverse-discrimination suit filed by eight men from Boston who found the Jenny Craig weight-loss organization too full of, well, female chauvinist pigs. The girl talk in the office, says plaintiff Joseph Egan, about "who to marry, who is pregnant, how to get pregnant" was offensive, and it was sexist to ask his male colleagues to shovel the snow and insensitive to tell another he was "sensitive for a guy." These men found themselves on a slower track than their female colleagues...
...first place. All this attention also suggests a man who is sexually harassed has a greater claim on our sympathies -- a notion coming this week to a Multiplex near you in Disclosure, a movie in which predatory executive Demi Moore accosts sweet, sensitive Michael Douglas. Jenny Craig plaintiff Tracy Tinkham looks more like Joey Buttafuoco than Michael Douglas, but never mind. Perhaps he was succeeding handsomely at counseling overweight women and should have been promoted instead of being let go for breaking a trivial rule. We are asked to believe that these men's having to listen to jokes about...
Carol R. Tobias, the Dorchester resident who is the leading plaintiff in the suit, said she is dissatisfied with the ruling...
...Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether or not the Fourth Amendment -- which protects the right to privacy -- also prevents schools from conducting drug tests on students. The lawsuit was brought in Oregon against a school district which tossed the plaintiff, James Acton, off the football team in 1991 after he refused a drug test. A lower court ruled against the student but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision. The district's appeal relies on a 1985 Supreme Court ruling that states that the need to maintain order in public schools can justify limits on privacy...
...Plantiff's libel action is based on the allegation that Defendant changed the 'code name' on its personal computer from 'Carl Sagan' to 'Butt-Head Astronomer' after Plaintiff had requested that Defendant cease use of Plaintiff's name ... There can be no question that the use of the figurative term 'Butt-Head' negates the impression that Defendant was seriously implying an assertion of fact. It strains reason to conclude that Defendant was attempting to criticize Plaintiff's reputation or competency as an astronomer. One does not seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using the undefined phrase 'butt-head.' Thus...