Word: suit
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...Avis deal, HFS backed into a public relations nightmare almost immediately, after civil rights lawyers last year filed a discrimination suit that accused an Avis licensee of refusing to rent to black customers in North and South Carolina. Avis moved to drop the licensee, began a review of its antidiscrimination policies and hired a new chief counsel to assure compliance with...
...world's biggest bank balance, several luxury hotels and two wives. But is the SULTAN OF BRUNEI also, well, a party guy? Former Miss USA SHANNON MARKETIC has filed suit against the Sultan, his brother Prince Jefri Bolkiah and a Los Angeles talent agency after she took a trip with a friend to the tiny province that borders Malaysia to make what she thought were promotional appearances for a fee of $21,200 a week. Instead, she says, she found she was expected to go to all-night parties and make herself available for sex. She had to hand over...
...proceed with a lawsuit to recoup the some $800 million the state estimates it has spent treating sick smokers since July 1994. At issue was a measure which prevents companies from arguing Medicaid patients are partially to blame for their illnesses, allows the state to bring a class action suit on behalf of the thousands of Medicaid patients suffering tobacco-related illnesses and permits the use of statistics which help finger tobacco as the cause of certain health problems. Tobacco companies say the law, the only one of its kind in the nation, violates the constitutional right of due process...
Harbury denounced the Guatemalan government at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva in March 1996 and filed a civil-rights suit against officials in the CIA, State Department and National Security Council, according to her book...
...recast by Zayas into an interestingly post-modern role of the isolated intellectual. His sardonic commentary and constant observations on the rest of the play draw the line between the fantastic and the real, bringing the viewpoint of a modern, cynical viewer into the play. In his battered black suit, derby hat and worn-out umbrella, Burt-Kinderman's Jacques seems a cross between Charlie Chaplin and one of Beckett's existentially confused wanderers from Waiting for Godot. Her razor-sharp portrayal electrifies the play. Deftly handling Jacques's bitter one-liners, she also does an unusually effective job with...