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After a month-long fracas characterized by lawyers running roughshod over the law, President Clinton finally decided to play the legal game himself. At 4:30 p.m. Friday, assistant White House counsel David Kendall delivered an angry statement announcing his intention to sue Kenneth Starr over deliberate leaks "which violate the fundamental rules of fairness in an investigation like this," Kendall said. "That office is out of control...
...appears Clinton didn't force her into it and that the relationship wasn't unwelcome," says Mary Coombs, a University of Miami law professor. Finally, if any of the accounts of what occurred that have leaked out prove untrue, Lewinsky, and conceivably even Clinton, could turn the tables and sue for defamation...
...days when spinach, liver and other unpopular foods could be mocked with impunity may be past. Not surprisingly, other aggrieved vegetable and meat producers are lining up to sue. The nation's second food-disparagement suit, also to be tried in Amarillo, pits emu farmers against the Honda car company. The farmers say the emu was slammed by a commercial featuring a hucksterish emu rancher who promotes the ostrich-like bird as "the pork of the future." The ad never calls emu meat unsafe, but Fort Worth attorney John Scott says its portrayal of the birds as disreputable has dealt...
Like any good Americans, the beef industry decided to sue. Texas rancher Paul Engler, who claims he lost more than $6 million, charged in a federal lawsuit that the show's "carefully and maliciously edited statements were designed to hype ratings at the expense of the American cattle industry." Engler's suit against Oprah and Lyman, which went to trial in Amarillo last week, is the first ever under an odd Texas statute--one that forbids food "disparagement" and opens the way for lawsuits when fruits, vegetables or meat are defamed...
OCCUPATION: Picks nose; shows breasts AGE: 25 BEST PUNCH: She says she's going to sue Regan and HarperCollins, the publisher of Regan's imprint, because they didn't promote her book, Jen-X, as the company promised...