Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FILED SUIT. MUHAMMAD ALI, 57, boxing legend; against his former personal attorney, Richard Hirschfeld, and an associate; for allegedly taking advantage of his Parkinson's disease to deprive him of rights to his life story; in Norfolk...
...Those skeptics include the lawyers bringing a wrongful-death suit against the government, backwoods militia types (who love to talk about a tape that supposedly shows the FBI using a flamethrower on the compound) and of course Republicans. Thursday, with Republican supersleuth Dan Burton champing at the bit in the House, and Senate FBI watchdog Charles Grassley calling Coulson?s admission "a serious development in terms of further erosion of the FBI's credibility," a suitably peeved Attorney General Janet Reno hurried to get the official ducks back in a row. "The important thing is to keep going until...
Maybe Ken Starr could handle this one on his way out of town. In a case that reallyneeds an independent counsel, a Federal judge on Wednesday invited more than 12,400 current and former Justice Department lawyers to join a class-action suit worth a half billion dollars in which 200 Justice Department lawyers are suing the Justice Department for illegally cheating them out of overtime pay. The 1945 Federal Employees Pay Act, which requires overtime pay or compensatory time off if more than 40 hours are worked, has somehow never been enforced by Justice at Justice. The agency claims...
...that they?d smashed a drug ring which had infiltrated a company involved in the maintenance of American Airlines planes. In that case, the smugglers had transported heroin in secret compartments accessible only to technical staff. To compound its p.r. problems, American is the target of a government antitrust suit that started last May, and one of its planes crashed in June while landing during a storm in Little Rock, Ark., killing nine people. But the airline can count itself as but one of many unwitting mules ? after all, according to the Washington Post, Colombian drug exports...
PHONE WARS Last week MCI joined Sprint and Qwest in offering 5[cents]-a-minute calling rates, and market leader AT&T may follow suit. Meanwhile, Qwest announced unlimited Internet access and 250 minutes of long-distance calls for $24.95 a month. One caution: Carriers may slip in new fees or hijack your local toll-call service. Read your bill carefully...