Word: suit
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Because the university did not have straightforward policies on either institutional or individual conflicts of interest, one official said, the suit was difficult to defend against...
...Saudi European suit, according to Investcorp general counsel Lawrence Kessler, is "completely without merit, and we expect to see it dismissed." (Other defendants deny all charges). When TIME asked Kirdar to comment on the litigation, he not only rejected the charges but also said he barely knew Radwan and doubted he had ever spoken more than "15 words" to him. Both men, however, worked for Chase Manhattan in the Middle East in the '70s and, says Radwan, both attended management meetings. Radwan supplied Time with a photograph of himself with Kirdar taken in Switzerland...
Competition heightened soon after the debut of Tagamet HB, when SmithKline filed suit against J&J/Merck in federal district court in Manhattan. The company sought "to stop defendant from deceiving the public and undermining the launch of Tagamet HB...through false and misleading television commercials" and advertisements. The suit cited such claims as "8 out of 10 doctors and pharmacists chose Pepcid AC over Tagamet...
...outdone, J&J/Merck countersued in September, charging SmithKline with "false advertising" and asking for "corrective advertising and punitive and actual damages." Their suit noted, for example, that SmithKline falsely claimed that Tagamet HB and SmithKline's Tums work faster, and that doctors prefer Tagamet HB to Pepcid...
...ABORTION SUIT SURPRISE...