Word: suits
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...group of 32 members of Congress, led by Representative Robert Dornan, a California Republican, has sent NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus a letter of protest. "It's Frankensteinesque," Dornan says. "What they are doing is embryo destruction, and there's no way that they can adjust that to suit me." The uproar could be louder than the denunciations last year of the two George Washington University doctors who announced that they had split a human embryo in a process called cloning...
...organizers of Woodstock '94 lodged an $80 million lawsuit against rivals who tried to hold an event called Bethel '94. That festival was to take place on the original Woodstock site and was to include such performers as Melanie and Country Joe MacDonald, who appeared in 1969. The suit was settled out of court. Although Bethel '94 was later officially canceled, 12,000 people gathered there spontaneously, and Woodstock veterans like Arlo Guthrie stopped by to give free, impromptu performances...
...executive director within days. One of the names likely to be in the hat for chief exec: Jesse Jackson, who had sought the position before it was given to Chavis. Last Saturday the N.A.A.C.P. board voted overwhelmingly to fire Chavis because he had settled a sexual harassment suit with money from the organization's budget; it then appointed an interim administrator. Sources tell TIME that all senior officials Chavis brought with him have been placed on administrative leave -- a step toward their eventual firing. Chavis has hinted that he may sue the civil rights organization, but TIME correspondent Sylvester Monroe...
...TIME Senior Correspondent Jack White. The NAACP board meets tomorrow in Baltimore ostensibly to decide Chavis's fate. But White's source says a deal has already been cut within the NAACP to get rid of Chavis. Chavis has came under fire recently because he settled a sexual harrassment suit with money taken from the NAACP. Yesterday, a second woman accused Chavis of alleged improper advances, but later recanted her statement. Still, says White, Chavis' problems lie elsewhere: Chavis has claimed that under him, membership in the NAACP has increased by 100,000. However, an annual report shows that...
...Justice Department is backing up President Clinton's attempt to put Paula Corbin Jones' sexual harassment suit on the courts' back burner until his presideny expires. In a brief filed today titled "Statement of Interest of the United States," the Department said presidents generally should not have to defend themselves against private suits based on pre-presidential acts. Whether that holds up in the case of DOJ's current boss, however, is still up to the courts...