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...News are reporting Jones? firm intentions to climb back up that legal mountain -- a road that would give the hardiest presidential accuser pause for thought. ?Do I want two more years of this?? Jones is reported to have asked friends. Now it?s a rhetorical question. Whether the Rutherford Institute can pay for two more years of it when they?re already hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket from round one is another matter...
Chief executives in heat should probably not look to Judge Susan Webber Wright's ruling as a license to terrorize. True, even with the Rutherford Institute's money and a team of highly motivated lawyers, advantages most sexual-harassment plaintiffs don't have, Jones lost. What is more, many judges think sexual-harassment claims have gone too far, that one-time propositions like Clinton's should not be the basis for litigation. Call this the "no harm, no foul" school, and include among its proponents a majority of the Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia, for instance, recently wrote that sexual...
...your story about the strategy of the attorneys for Paula Jones [NATION, March 16], you asserted that John Whitehead, the head of the Rutherford Institute, became involved with the Jones litigation "to raise the institute's profile." That is wrong. As Mr. Whitehead has repeatedly explained, the institute made its decision to assist Paula Jones in September 1997, when the press reported that her attorneys had departed because she refused to accept the President's settlement offer. Without attorneys or funds, Ms. Jones would have had no chance of having her day in court...
...institute has taken great pains to ensure that those who are financially supporting the Paula Jones litigation know exactly where their money is going and how it is being spent. Money sent to the Rutherford Institute for the Jones litigation is used to pay court costs and legal expenses (not attorneys' fees) for the ongoing case, and for nothing else. ALEXIS CROW, General Counsel The Rutherford Institute Charlottesville...
...demonstrate a historic pattern of inducement and intimidation: rewards for women who cooperated sexually and then kept it quiet; punishments for those who said no or talked about it later. The Jones documents allege that Clinton's longtime allies--aide Bruce Lindsey, former aide Betsey Wright, old friend Skip Rutherford and former security chief Buddy Young--used sweet persuasion, ugly threats or the promise of state and federal jobs to squelch what Wright has famously called "bimbo eruptions...