Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Slick and sexy, Guess?, Inc.'s long-cultivated image began turning seedy last summer. First, five contractors for the $500 million clothing empire were cited by California inspectors for illegal home-sewing operations. Then a class-action suit accused Guess and 16 subcontractors of paying their mostly immigrant workers less than minimum wage. Ornery picket lines spread from Guess's shop on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive to its 66 other retail outlets across the country. And in a final one-two punch, the National Labor Relations Board forced the firm to rehire employees it had fired for union sympathizing, while...
...monitor its hiring and promotion policies over the next seven years. The settlement closes a case initially brought by eight women who complained that they were repeatedly passed over for raises and higher-level management positions. The EEOC joined their legal battle and expanded it to a class-action suit to include former and current female employees of Publix, which has stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama...
...went on television to doubt her (he now says he believes her) to old photos of her that were published in Penthouse. And by making an appearance on Pat Robertson's 700 Club television show, and another with the Conservative Political Action Conference, Jones fueled suspicions that her suit was politically motivated...
...issue before the Supreme Court this week, however, is not the substance of Jones' suit but whether it should go forward now. The court has previously recognized the principle of immunity for official presidential acts, but it has never extended the doctrine to acts that occurred before a President took office. Clinton, who has denied Jones' allegations and said he has no recollection of ever meeting her, is asking the court to hold that presidential immunity requires that Jones' lawsuit wait until he leaves office...
...will do, and almost everyone agrees this is a close case. (The two federal courts to hear it so far have split, with Clinton winning at the trial level and Jones on appeal.) But there are good reasons to believe that the court may be reluctant to allow Jones' suit to go forward. The Supreme Court generally treads lightly in "separation of powers" cases, where one of the three branches of government is being subjected to the dictates of another. If Jones won, the President would in theory have to answer to any of the 586 of U.S. District Court...