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...handed the phone to the President, Bennett was ready to start spreading the news. At first Clinton too thought it was a trick. "You gotta be kidding!" he shouted, and then said, "If I was there, I would give you a big kiss. But then you'd have to sue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day Of Deliverance | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Nonetheless, even as such conservative jurists as Wright and Scalia have limited what counts as sexual harassment, they and their liberal counterparts have consistently broadened the grounds on which Americans can sue for it. Every time the Supreme Court has ruled on workplace sexual harassment, it has broadened the scope of "standing" for those claims: from the simple, easily understood quid pro quo (if Clinton had said, "Kiss it, or you're fired," for example) to the more convoluted cases like those involving a "hostile work environment." Just last month the Supreme Court, usually hostile to gay rights, even allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Try This At The Office | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...either. I was accepting full responsibility for anything that might happen, and indemnifying A.J. Hackett against any liability, even if the company proved negligent. Essentially, the employees could hit me over the head and toss me off the tower without a bungy and my family would be powerless to sue...

Author: By John F. "case" kim, | Title: Taking a Leap in Las Vegas | 4/7/1998 | See Source »

...becoming recruiters. That's the whole purpose." Psychiatrists who speak on Landmark's behalf dispute these claims. But Sumerlin says a 1993 Forum turned her fiance (now her ex) into a robot. She organized an anti-Landmark hot line and publications clearinghouse. Landmark officials made sounds to sue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of Est? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...Budweiser talking frogs to sip a few brews, but they never, ever inhale. At least that's what Anheuser-Busch seemed to be saying when it threatened to sue a pro-marijuana Website depicting the amphibian trio croaking "Bud is wiser." Scott Jeffrey, the owner of legalize.com yanked the graphic but grabbed the domain, budiswiser.com "I have the constitutional right to parody," he says. And, he claims, to smoke pot regularly. Does Jeffrey inhale? "Definitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Mar. 16, 1998 | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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