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...Justice Dept. rightly decides to sue cigarette manufacturers
...like a silly question, but it?s at the heart of a rape case that just made the Supreme Court docket. During its 1999-2000 session, the Court will decide the constitutionality of provisions in the Violence Against Women Act that allow women who are attacked or raped to sue their attackers in Federal civil court. The case under consideration was brought by a Virginia Tech student who charges that two members of the football team raped her during her freshman year. So why would a case like this fall under the aegis of interstate commerce? Because, explains TIME senior...
HMOs are bundling up for what could be a long, cold winter. On Monday, California?s Governor Gray Davis made his the third state to allow patients to sue their managed care plans for failing to provide adequate care. Along with legislation recently enacted in Georgia and Texas, California?s new law wrenches much medical decision-making from the grip of HMOs and hands it back to the patients and their doctors. In most states, HMOs are protected from liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats...
...This was a good win for us," Harvard Coach Sue Caples said. "We played tough and a little bit scrappy, and we're in a great situation right now. We're getting better every single...
...unsure whether to love the new technology or hate it. A number of media companies and TV networks have invested in TiVo and/or Replay. But many of the same players (including Time Warner, parent company of TIME) also formed the Advanced Television Copyright Coalition, which has threatened to sue the companies in the future for nonpayment of copyright license fees. No one, of course, is making such noises anymore about VCRs, which also record copyrighted material...