Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glaring weakness of the 1997 tobacco settlement is that it did not do enough to prevent the tobacco industry from exporting its death and deceit abroad. I do hope that this federal lawsuit finally solves the problem...
...familiar with those programs, but at Harvard we place great importance on compliance with the non-discrimination laws, including Title IX," says Robert B. Donin, the University's deputy general counsel. "If we didn't comply with Title IX, we could face a lawsuit or lose our federal funding...
...with an undiminished capacity to enthrall, outrage and provoke litigation. Nabokov had to fight many obscenity battles when the book was published. Now a derivative novel, Lo's Diary (Foxrock; 292 pages; $22.95), by the Italian essayist and translator Pia Pera, has been issued--after the settling of a lawsuit brought by Nabokov's son Dimitri. He insisted that he be allowed to write a preface to the book and that 5% of its profits go to the International Pen Club. Deal...
Until recently, Ellis fought back against the press the old-fashioned way--issuing forceful denials and filing the occasional libel lawsuit. Last week, though, he launched an unprecedented pre-emptive strike. With ABC's 20/20 preparing a segment about his San Diego-based diet empire, Ellis took out a full-page ad in the New York Times and other newspapers, directing readers to a website newsinterview.com where they can see the newsmagazine's full, unedited interview with him, before ABC airs its own snippets...
...them medical experts around the country, and they didn't want to interview them," he says. When he was interviewed by correspondent Arnold Diaz, Ellis insisted on making his own videotape. "It was more like a deposition than an interview," says Ellis, who claims ABC is retaliating for a lawsuit he filed against ABC Boston affiliate WCVB, which aired its own critical series on Metabolife in May. "Not only is that false, it's silly," says Eileen Murphy, spokeswoman at ABC, which plans to air the report in the next few weeks. "This is an invasion of our editorial process...