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Three years ago, Barbara Chernow's husband was struck and killed by a New York City police car driven by a drunken officer. Chernow sued the city for $29 million, partly for the loss of her husband's future income. Because her husband was 71 at his death, the jury...
Lipsig takes his cases on a contingency-fee basis, meaning that he collects only if he wins. In that event, he typically garners a third of the final award, which can run into the millions. He claims to win 95% of his cases, a figure that is all the more...
The four-year legal battle between Harvard Business School and Jackson, who charges that she was denied tenure in 1983 because she is a woman, is winding down. Jackson has sued the University and Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur for a tenured post and $847,000 in...
Other places have been attempting to have it both ways. In Los Angeles the 3,000-member Jonathan Club (initiation fee: $10,000) is being sued by the city because, though it admits women members, it keeps one dining room for men only. At some clubs the opposition to women...
Buried within the lengthy list of acknowledgments at the end of this life of John Cheever is a poignant sentence indeed: "The most important book dealing with Cheever's life is Susan Cheever's Home Before Dark, a sensitive memoir that provides fascinating quotations from his journals and letters." Scott...