Word: suit
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...student, Joseph Boateng, is from Ghana, and the suit alleges that he was mistreated because of his race...
...Extension School student has filed suit against the Coop, alleging that he was detained by employees of the store and physically harmed while he was there as a customer...
Terry Anderson, the best-known and longest-held American in the 1980s Beirut hostage crisis, filed suit today against 11 government agencies to shake loose official documents about his ordeal. The former Associated Press correspondent claims the materials are being withheld by the U.S. government without just cause. The State Department says it's not releasing documents because they could endanger national security. Anderson also says State told him the materials would "violate the personal privacy" of his terrorist-kidnappers. Anderson, who's peppered the government with Freedom of Information Act requests for a book about his Hizballah captors...
...embellished resume in 1982 race for governor, claiming he attended Harvard; lost ensuing libel suit against The Globe
...male employee of the Federal Aviation Administration said he was grabbed, groped and ridiculed by female co-workers during a 1992 cultural-diversity training session. Air-traffic controller Douglas P. Hartman filed a $300,000 suit against the Transportation Department, claiming the agency had ignored his earlier complaints. "It was ugly. I was shocked. I was stunned," said Hartman. The FAA is dropping any sensitivity workshops that it believes could lead to future harassment lawsuits...