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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about 80 owners from the Hampshire Homes development in Kendall, Fla. filed suit against Lennar for failing to comply with the South Florida Building Code, which is particularly stringent because of the danger of violent storms...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Overseer Candidate's Homes Blow in Wind | 5/5/1994 | See Source »

...suit alleges that the petition to get rentcontrol on the state ballot should not have beencertified because it violates the "home rule"portion of the state constitution...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Rent Control Foes Win Key Victory | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...alleges that the purpose of the petition wasto end rent control in Cambridge, Boston andBrookline, the only three municipalities in thestate that allow the practice. The issue should bedecided within these communities, not on astatewide basis, the suit says...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Rent Control Foes Win Key Victory | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...suit against the attorney general alsoalleges that a summary of the petition that hisoffice prepared for inclusion on the state ballotwas misleading, because, the suit claims, it ledvoters to believe that the petition was actuallypro-rent control...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Rent Control Foes Win Key Victory | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...have not used . . . the Justice Department, but things are going to change now." The edited tapes still left uncertainties about Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up, however, so Jaworski insisted on the unedited originals of 64 specific tapes, transcripts and other documents. Nixon refused. Jaworski filed suit. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a President cannot withhold evidence in a criminal case (Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and others were by now under indictment, and Nixon himself had been named by the grand jury as an "unindicted co- conspirator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Nixon: I Have Never Been a Quitter | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

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