Word: suit
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...recompensed, other countries will not follow our example." MUAMMAR GADDAFI, leader of Libya, on how his country had not been adequately rewarded for pledging to renounce its weapons programs and how that might affect Iran's and North Korea's decisions to follow suit...
...several of the association's 80 chapters, stripping them of funding. "We have a strict policy against discrimination that won't be compromised," says Fran Marsh, spokeswoman for the University of California's Hastings School of Law in San Francisco, where students belonging to the society filed a suit last month claiming that their constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and religion were being violated. The group has launched six legal challenges, including one last week at Arizona State University in Tempe. Two of the suits have been resolved in the society's favor. "These students have the right...
MEANWHILE IN THE U.S.... Poetic Justice A judge in the trial of a doctor, notorious for asking dying Beatle George Harrison to autograph a guitar, waxed lyrical in agreeing to the physician's request to move an unrelated suit because of the adverse publicity from the Harrison incident. Set to the classic Beatles song, his ruling started "Something in the folks he treats/ Attracts bad press like no other doctor." Anyone who had forgotten why Dr. Gil Lederman was famous, has now remembered...
BURT REYNOLDS sued ex-girlfriend Pamela Seals. HE SAYS she threatened to go public with false allegations of abuse if he didn't pay her. In her suit, SHE SAYS he gave her years of beating and toe stomping...
BILL MAHER got sued by ex--gal pal Nancy Johnson (a.k.a. centerfold Coco Johnsen). HE SAYS the suit is frivolous and false. SHE SAYS he backed out of plans to marry her and manhandled her at a party...