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It was Faulkner's choice to take the bad with the good. She applied -- and was accepted -- last year. Then the Citadel, learning she was female, reneged. Faulkner sued for discrimination -- the school is state funded -- and last month, Federal District Judge C. Weston Houck ruled in her favor, saying...
However, this joyous encampment is, in its way, a protest against government regulation. With its exuberance, it defies the devastation wrought by liability lawyers on aviation. The troubles are grave. In 1978 manufacturers produced 17,800 small airplanes. Today they turn out fewer than 1,000, a 95% drop in...
Housing Secretary HENRY CISNEROS is being sued by former mistress, Linda Medlar, who says he broke an "oral contract" to pay her $4,000 a month for damages following the exposure of their affair in 1990. Cisneros, who reconciled with his wife, denies a contract but admits giving Medlar "intermittent...
For some members of the N.A.A.C.P. board, however, the truly shocking revelation was that Chavis had agreed to pay Stansel not out of his own money but from the venerable civil rights association's precarious finances. "The board knew nothing about the settlement," said member Anthony Fugett after he heard...
For all the talk about good medicine, though, the current battle over access to patients is a sobering reminder that at bookkeeping time, patients are just a source of cash. In Texas the lawsuit brought by Dr. Maidenberg and four other doctors accuses Aetna of violating their "property rights" by...