Word: trialing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This past week, U.S. District Court judge Susan Webber Wright dismissed Paula Jones' sexual harassment case on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to go to trial. According to Judge Wright, Jones' claims of the "hostility and animus" she felt from her supervisors did not demonstrate sexual harassment...
...Lewinsky, he created a time-release capsule that aided the public's digestion of the scandal, giving people the leisure to sort out which parts of the President's character are important and which are not. And by slowing Starr's investigation until after the Jones case comes to trial next month, Clinton could use the not-guilty verdict he expects to argue the pointlessness of Starr's efforts. Of course, even if Starr wins the privilege fight, the prosecutor might not gain all that much. Clinton aides can simply take a page from their boss and say they...
...trial judge ruled for Maureen, holding that once the sperm and ovum are united--whether "in the private darkness of a Fallopian tube or the public glare of a Petri dish"--a human life has begun and it is the woman's decision whether or not to let it proceed. But the intermediate appellate court took Steven's side, rejecting the notion that the embryos are human life and emphasizing the consent form that both Kasses had signed...
...will not be pleasantly surprised. To protect himself and the process, he'll be grilled, chased and pretty much treated like another Joseph, in Kafka's The Trial (original German title: Der Prozess). But don't let the pedigree fool you. The Spanish Prisoner is exemplary entertainment. Come expecting a dour jeremiad on man's corruptibility--or even a slice-of-lice drama like Mamet's American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross--and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The villains in The Spanish Prisoner (like the war-games con men in Mamet's Wag the Dog script) dress well, speak...
...example, Breggin cited the first product liability case against pharmaceutical company Eli Lily, which produces Prozac, in which Prozac was blamed for a murder-suicide tragedy in Kentucky. Breggin said that although the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Eli Lily had rigged the trial, the case received little media coverage...