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However, John Leo, the conservative columnist who writes for U.S. News and World Report, finds a far different meaning in the Texaco case. Leo seems to enjoy railing against political correctness, multiculturalism and affirmative action. His Feb. 10 column, "Jelly Bean: The Sequel," laments the outcome of the Texaco suit...
...YORK CITY: Investors sent tobacco stocks higher Tuesday, on reports that major tobacco companies were close to settling all of the suits brought by 21 states to recover Medicaid costs associated with smoking. But both the companies and the states deny that they are anywhere close to a comprehensive settlement. "There have been discussions about settlements with individual companies, most notably the Liggett Group," said Chris DeWitt, a spokesman for the Michigan attorney general's office. "But I have no information that there is any talk yet about a global settlement." Bloomberg News, quoting sources involved in the negotiations...
...YORK CITY: Investors sent tobacco stocks higher Tuesday, on reports that major tobacco companies were close to settling all of the suits brought by 21 states to recover Medicaid costs associated with smoking. But both the companies and the states deny that they are anywhere close to a comprehensive settlement. "There have been discussions about settlements with individual companies, most notably the Liggett Group," said Chris DeWitt, a spokesman for the Michigan attorney general's office. "But I have no information that there is any talk yet about a global settlement." Bloomberg News, quoting sources involved in the negotiations...
...former Shell sales representative Charles Robinson, a black man who sued Shell for racial discrimination after being fired in 1991 and subsequently received a negative reference from his former employer. So Robinson sued again, claiming that company officials who gave the recommendation were influenced by his previously unsuccessful discrimination suit. Lawyers for the Justice Department, which picked up Robinson's suit on appeal, added that without the retaliation provision, employers would have a "perverse incentive" to fire workers who might bring discrimination claims. Straightforward as the ruling sounds, however, its implications could be wide-ranging. The ruling, for example, does...
...much to meditate about the future: Sydney and Justin were in the legal custody of a man who had been found liable for the battering--and by extension the death--of their mother. The fact that the estate of Nicole Brown Simpson did not file a wrongful-death suit leaves open an even more macabre possibility: that either or both of the children, when they come of age, may sue their father for their mother's wrongful death...