Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such luck. Last week Southeastern Eye Center, a Greensboro, North Carolina, clinic specializing in cataract surgery, announced that it intends to file a defamation suit against Dateline for a May 4 feature titled "Cataract Cowboys." The segment focused its harsh lights on scalpel-happy surgeons who earn millions by allegedly operating on patients who don't need surgery...
Altman and Clifford are far from absolved in the B.C.C.I. case. In New York City three criminal indictments against Clifford are still pending. In Washington the Federal Reserve Bank has a pending civil suit against Clifford and Altman, who also face a $1.5 billion civil racketeering suit by First American Bank. Though Clifford will probably not be tried in New York, the other cases are expected to be tough fights for the two men, who are likely to be mired in B.C.C.I. legal proceedings for years to come...
...Letterman and his staff dismiss any notion that the show will be toned down or changed in any substantive way to suit the earlier time period. In a series of brainstorming meetings on the subject, Letterman and his producers considered several ideas -- expanding the opening monologue, switching from a single chair for guests to a Tonight-style couch -- and rejected them. Says Morton: "We decided we do a pretty darn good show...
...woman I've ever been around." Markoe, who is now writing books, says she hasn't watched Letterman's show since the breakup and "won't even talk to people about working on another late-night show. I have no interest in helping any other white man in a suit do an inventive show. Let them all find their own damn inventive shows...
...passed over for the top job solely because she is a woman, is demanding $15 million in damages. "This is a way to seek a remedy and, hopefully, vindication," she says. National Medical, which is based in Santa Monica, California, denied the charges and vowed to fight the suit "vigorously...