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It didn't help that in 2008 Mosley was set up and photographed during a pay-for-pain session with several prostitutes. The pictures were duly splashed across a British tabloid. Mosley sued for invasion of privacy and won, but his moral authority was crippled. "We were within a whisker...
In France, several members of the advocacy organization TransAide have unsuccessfully sued the state in recent years to try to obtain a legal sex change without an operation. They've since lodged appeals and intend to bring their cases before the European Human Rights Court if necessary. "We want to...
In April 2009, Van and nine other female jumpers sued the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) for violating the ban on gender discrimination in Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that although the IOC's decision did qualify as gender discrimination, as an international...
Last summer, Hands proposed a deal in which he would inject $1.56 billion into EMI if Citigroup wrote off about the same amount in debt. Citigroup said no and offered instead to write off $1.56 billion in debt in return for controlling ownership of the company. Hands refused and then...
We don't know much about what happened to Salinger during those campaigns. But Ian Hamilton, his beleaguered biographer - beleaguered by Salinger, who successfully sued to keep Hamilton from quoting from his letters - believes that not long afterward, Salinger suffered a nervous breakdown. In Hamilton's book In Search of...