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...team as "verbal elbow throwers" who meticulously strategize and specialize in crafty back-and-forth before the jury. And Genson has already begun throwing elbows. On Thursday, his team asked Holderman to remove Fitzgerald and his entire prosecution crew because of a purported violation of a pretrial publicity order. ("Meritless," said the prosecutors.) Genson has also loudly pushed his claim that the government's case is much ado about nothing. Sure, the governor was heard talking of selling Obama's seat to the highest bidder, talking of getting Chicago Tribune editorialists fired for being too harsh on his administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Blagojevich Defend Himself in Court? | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...releases,” and she adds that similar waivers are used routinely in the corporate world. It’s true that many companies offer their departing employees extra incentives in exchange for a promise not to sue. Employment discrimination cases are notoriously difficult to defend, and even meritless cases can be expensive to litigate and damaging to a company’s reputation—Allstate CEO Edward M. Liddy has called them “a plague on corporate America.” But Allstate’s strategy of “fire first, sign waivers...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Not in Good Hands | 5/22/2002 | See Source »

...should Harvard have to pay a living wage? Because it has $19 billion, the PSLM says. Some add to this argument by saying that because Harvard raises the property values and the standard of living in Cambridge, it therefore owes its workers a living wage. Both arguments, however, are meritless...

Author: By Kenyon S. Weaver, | Title: Editor's Notebook: PSLM and the Betrayal of the Living Wage | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...professor, for once, has nothing to say. His arguments are proven meritless, rejected by the very authority whose theories they are based upon. Thanks to McLuhan, the professor is discredited, embarrassed--and unequivocally wrong...

Author: By Sujit Raman, | Title: Academic Truth Is All Relative | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...What the President can claim is that the Jones case never should have been filed, and that it's further proof that the right-wingers are out to get him. "The White House is going to redouble its defense that a meritless case was pursued purely to harass and embarrass him," says Branegan. "And they'll apply that spin directly to Ken Starr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Enough For Comfort at White House | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

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