Word: suit
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Texaco is not a nice company. Recent revelations about blatant racial discrimination within the corporation as well as the destruction and suppression of evidence have prompted Jesse Jackson and other leaders to call for a nationwide boycott of Texaco. Although a discrimination suit was recently settled for a record $176.1 million, former employees of the Texas oil giant are now being prosecuted for obstruction of justice...
...Republicans' electoral gains in the Senate and their continued control of the House of Representatives. Also, although I hate to encourage the sort of unfounded rumors and conjecture that have fueled scandals such as Whitewater, the White House Travel Office firings, the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit and even Vincent W. Foster's suicide, perhaps Clinton is trying not to tread on any toes because he does have ethical skeletons in his closet. Washington gossip has suggested that Special Prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr has another round of indictments up his sleeve. And if Clinton's past ethical dilemmas...
...grades for fall semester courses were withheld in order to pressure the university into recognizing a union for TAs, the university threatened a ban on future teaching, academic disciplinary hearings, negative letters of recommendation and possible expulsion. To respond, Yale's Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) filed a suit with the NLRB earlier this year; after several months, the national labor board found the university's actions illegal...
...Taylor isn't just unlucky in love. She's unlucky in law too. Taylor has lost a suit against the National Enquirer, and she (and ex-husband Larry Fortensky) will have to pay the tab--$432,600 in court costs. The duo claimed a 1993 story about a property dispute damaged their reputations and invaded their privacy. Alas, all levels of the California court system disagreed...
Still, if O.J. had been convicted according to plan, the wall of silence might well have held. It was not until the jury in last fall's civil suit found for Simpson that an outraged Yamauchi broke ranks and signed his book deal. "Two long, costly trials, and O.J. walked," the criminalist wrote. "After all our hard work, it was too much. The physical evidence we'd fabricated was massive, irrefutable. The system just didn't work...