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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So it goes throughout this litigious land. In Wisconsin, Selena Fox, a witch, is fighting local zoning laws so that she may conduct religious ceremonies on her property. In Oklahoma, Lucille McCord and Joann Bell, two mothers, successfully ended school prayer with a suit, then, after Bell was assaulted and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is Against My Rights! | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

When Mobil Corp. President William Tavoulareas sued the Washington Post for saying he used his corporate position to "set up his son" in a shipping business, the jurors on the case reportedly proceeded on three intuitive assumptions. First, if a news organization accuses someone, it ought to be able to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESS Jousts Without Winners | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

People still bring suits, though; prominent among them are cases involving public figures who should know exactly how arduous a battle they face. Televangelist Pat Robertson is in the early stages of a case brought against Representative Andrew Jacobs Jr. and former Representative Paul McCloskey Jr., who accused Robertson of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESS Jousts Without Winners | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

In Pennsylvania, which may have the most litigious political hierarchy in the nation, media organizations, large and small, have repeatedly been sued. The hardest hit: the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sister paper the Daily News face pending suits by two of the seven judges of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESS Jousts Without Winners | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

Like certain Amish and Mennonite groups, Jehovah's Witnesses practice shunning: believers are required to treat as pariahs those who have been ousted from the sect. Since 1981 those who leave voluntarily have also been ostracized, even by close relatives. Janice Paul of Anchorage, a former Witness who was shunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Right To Shun | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

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