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...reporters filed and their breach of loyalty to their "employer." A jury originally awarded Food Lion more than $5 million in damages; the excessive figure was reduced by the district court to about $300,000. Yet in a 2-1 decision on Oct. 20, a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out all but $2 of the damages, affirming the principle that the press cannot be penalized for reporting stories that are true...
...stayed indoors for practice. The workout: CII ergometer6K for those who hadn't done it yet, and 50 minutes steady-state for everyone else. I was planning to do an hour but my back started to hurt and I stopped after 53 minutes and did the weight circuit. I wanted to go down this morning but my back was sore after yesterday's work and a poor night's sleep so I stayed in bed; that first step out of bed is the hardest. I'll try to go down tomorrow or Saturday...
...reasoning that although the allegations were true, the undercover methods used to report the story (lying on job applications to get in the door, shooting covert footage inside the store and baiting other workers into doing and saying damaging things against their employer) were wrong. The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that although Food Lion lost $1.3 billion when its stock plunged the week the segment aired, the loss was not the result of ABC?s fraudulent reporting methods, but of the report's findings, which were true. A divided court awarded the grocer a token...
...early push for prominence extends beyond the attempt to win friends on the council. Much like the new Democrats or the compassionate conservatives on the national political circuit, several of this year's council candidates are trying to re-make their images to appeal to the widest swath of the campus electorate...
Unfortunately, the Courts may not see it that way. In 1996, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a District decision gutting a statute that required the National Endowment for the Arts to respect "general standards of decency and respect" in its grant-awarding process. Implicit in such rulings is a reading of the First Amendment that goes something like this: whenever the state throws its weight behind a specific set of beliefs, it is establishing one worldview at the expense of another. And this the First Amendment explicitly prohibits it from doing. You don't have to support...