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British poet Stephen Spender, 84, sued to block the publication of American writer David Leavitt's new novel, While England Sleeps, in Britain. Spender maintains that Leavitt, 32, based his work too closely on events described in Spender's 1948 autobiography, World Within World.
City Councillor Alice K. Wolf, who is not seeking reelction this year, has fought for right to post in the past. When the Cambridge City Council voted in 1974 to ban campaign signs, she sued--and won.
The tobacco industry, which sued the EPA over the report, disputes the court judgments against smoking parents, arguing that the case against secondhand smoke hasn't been proved. In fact, some prominent scientists, including epidemiology expert Alvan Feinstein of the Yale medical school, believe the EPA may have overstated the...
All the pots and all the kettles are black. Viacom had a point when it sued Malone last week, accusing him of "bullyboy" monopolism (Malone not only is the country's largest cable-system operator, but owns significant chunks of a dozen basic cable channels, and with Paramount would get...
Still other sites show why lawsuits proliferate so quickly around a toxic site. In Naugatuck, Connecticut, when the EPA targeted Uniroyal Chemical and 18 other companies for dumping waste, they turned around and sued 24 municipalities and more than 1,000 individuals and small-business owners.