Word: sues
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...Isaac sued the University after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission granted him a “right-to-sue notice” in April 1980, and, after a nine-year battle, eventually settled the suit out of court, with Harvard agreeing to pay for his legal fees and as well as offering to give him a position as a Fellow...
...This is a new level of pampering we're seeing in the hotel industry, where anything and everything can be taken care of for you even before you arrive," says Sue Brush, senior vice president of Westin Hotels & Resorts, which has 139 properties and is based in White Plains...
...looked like a leading actor. "He was already approved to be in the cast, and they literally got angry at me for suggesting it," Apatow says. "And I said, 'Let's not do the show then if we're not going to do it right.' And people threatened to sue me." So he hired Rogen for a small role in the show and also made him a writer. Which, according to other Undeclared writers, went surprisingly well. "It's uncomfortable for other people when this 18-year-old is ripping out scripts that are among the best," says Apatow...
...dish no one else orders - and he falls a little in love with her loneliness. She leaves New York for Memphis, where she gets a couple of waitressing jobs and meets a cop (David Strathairn) who's sunk into alcoholism over the departure of his good-time wife Sue Lynne (Rachel Weisz). Elizabeth then goes to Nevada, cocktailing in a casino. There she encounters Leslie (Natalie Portman), a canny gambler who's got a sassy line of patter and is almost, but not quite, as good at cards as she thinks...
...remains quite robust. That doctrine, a relic of English common law, essentially says the state can do no wrong because the state creates the law and thus cannot be subject to it. Many states have relaxed sovereign immunity and made it possible for victims of, say, botched operations to sue state hospitals. But Krauss of George Mason University says the Virginia Tech victims' families would probably have to seek an exception to sovereign immunity from the Supreme Court of Virginia in order to sue the school...