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Premier then threatened the homeowners with legal action if they did not pay a $300 fee. In response, a group of about 1,200 of the alleged pirates hired the firm of Melvin Belli, the famed attorney whose clients have included Errol Flynn, Mae West and Jack Ruby, to sue the company for invasion of privacy and extortion. Last week Premier filed its own suit against 6,902 people for intercepting its programs. The cases could set precedents for future legal duels between pay-TV companies and air pirates...
Sears aims not just at the selective shopper but at people who will buy nearly everything at its stores-and keep on buying practically forever. It is out after more customers like the Don Martins of Houston. For three generations, going back to Sue d'Amico, 75, Don Martin's mother-in-law, the family has bought nearly all its important goods at Sears, from a new roof to a garage-door opener to countless appliances, clothes and Cabbage Patch dolls. Says Lola Martin, Don's wife: "It's always been there, and it will always...
...workers they suspect may be in the U.S. illegally. Some bosses fear they may be fined for hiring workers who present bogus credentials. These executives vow to be choosy about whom they employ, even at the risk of provoking antidiscrimination suits by rejected minority applicants. "Let 'em sue," says Arnold Schwedock, executive director of the New York-based Ladies Apparel Contractors Association. "Concern about penalties comes first...
...changed some in the 111 years since, and last week a Supreme Court that includes the first female Justice endorsed the use of a new weapon by women seeking full equality in the legal profession. Writing for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Warren Burger held that female attorneys may sue if they are denied a chance to become partners in law firms because of their gender...
...preposterous to hold creators responsible for the indirect effects of their speech or publications on certain dangerously impressionable members of society. Ought President Reagan to be able to sue Jodie Foster and Martin Scorsese because they inspired John Hinckley? One is reminded of the trial in Florida a few years ago, in which a juvenile delinquent claimed that his crimes stemmed from a Kojak addiction...