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After discovering the company in 1998, the University sent several letters requesting a name change in accordance with the standard procedure. Harvard Negotiations resisted, and the University threatened to sue...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Wins Lawsuit Against Canadian Firm | 9/15/1999 | See Source »

...turbo-charged? How would it affect whom we choose to marry--those with altered genes or those without? If, as a parent, you haven't mortgaged the house to enhance your children, what sort of parent does that make you? Will a child one day be able to sue her parents for failing to do everything they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If We Have It, Do We Use It? | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Oklahoma junior high school science teacher Dennis Fritz never thought he would be convicted of raping and murdering his neighbor, 21-year-old Debra Sue Carter. He had no criminal record, except for driving offenses, and the case against him was paper thin--flimsy circumstantial evidence and the dubious testimony of a jailhouse snitch who claimed Fritz confessed while awaiting trial. Was that really all it took to send a man away for life? "When the jury came back with a guilty verdict, I almost went into shock," says Fritz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Innocent, After Proven Guilty | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Scheck and Neufeld also want more laws allowing the wrongly imprisoned to sue for damages. Only half a dozen states currently have such statutes, and some have low caps--like California's $10,000 maximum. If Dennis Fritz had slipped and fallen in a government building, he could have sued for millions. After being incarcerated for 12 years for a crime he didn't commit, he can't sue for anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Innocent, After Proven Guilty | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...deaths to be held jointly, which would allow him to testify at Diana's inquest, and to hold the hearings before a jury. The two coroners in the case have turned him down on both counts, but al Fayed is appealing. Meanwhile, bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, among others, could sue al Fayed's Ritz for civil damages for allowing its improperly licensed and drunken security chief to take the wheel of the Mercedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diana | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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