Word: suit
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...handwriting is on the wall for HMOs, and it isn't hard to read: A jury in San Bernardino, Calif., ordered Aetna U.S. Health Care of California to pay $120.5 million -- a record sum for an HMO suit -- to the wife of a man who couldn't get the company to cover his experimental cancer treatment and died. "The jury's statement is clear: Many people are just fed up with HMOs," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman...
Planned Parenthood has filed a civil suit against those involved with "The Nuremberg Files" in Portland, Ore., alleging that the site encourages violence against abortion providers and thereby infringes upon the 1994 Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The case is the first of its kind both because it tests the boundaries of the 1994 Act with the question of whether words on a Web site can have the same deterring factor as physically blocking clinic entrances and because it questions the First Amendment rights of the Internet, asking whether the site is a purely political vehicle...
...Action, the new movie based on the best-selling nonfiction book by the same name. Starring John Travolta as Schlichtmann, A Civil Action is a compelling tale of how the federal courts chewed up and spat out the cocky lawyer and the working-class families he represented in a suit that charged large industrial polluters with contaminating the water supply of Woburn, Mass. Expenses mounted so fast that Schlichtmann lost his Porsche and condo and filed for personal bankruptcy. The judge, in a questionable ruling, barred the parents of the leukemia-stricken children from testifying at trial. And the jury...
...however, his lawyers will change gear in their defense strategy. Instead of primarily emphasizing that the charges against the President don't meet the constitutional standard for impeachment, they'll first try to systematically refute the prosecution's case on key factual issues -- which is why it may ultimately suit them to lose the battle over calling witnesses. Of course, the White House will publicly maintain its opposition to witnesses -- if only to make sure that the political cost of a drawn-out, messy trial is born by the Republicans...
...morally restored society. Gore, like Scottie Pippen but with a weaker jump shot, is a more than able successor. Michael Jordan has retired, and the worst he ever did was palm the ball on occasion. Couldn't this president, guilty of more than just a few lane violations, follow suit? For the nation, nothing would so become Clinton's public life as the leaving...