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...lawyer that they got to sue us, he used to work with the rent-control officers, and the hearing officer used to work for him. They were all buddy-buddy," Bologna says...
Clinton's main argument for recognizing this kind of "temporary immunity" is that a President should not be required to drop affairs of state every time someone decides to sue. If this door is opened, the argument goes, Presidents will be besieged by politically motivated lawsuits. "It's really about the people's interest in having the President at his desk doing the job they elected him to do," says Stanford law professor Kathleen Sullivan, who signed a pro-Clinton brief...
...exciting his loyal readers with outhouse humor and photos of splay-legged models, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt incited the guardians of public pudency. City D.A.s, state attorneys general, Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell--all were so vexed by Flynt's verbal and pictorial provocations, they just had to sue him. One offended reader took a few rifle shots at the Great Satan of Columbus, Ohio, forever paralyzing some of Flynt's favorite body parts. The bumptious pornographer made friends with Jimmy Carter's evangelist sister, went nuts on painkillers and won a crucial First Amendment ruling by the U.S. Supreme...
...Robert Dornan "B-1 Bob" went ballistic after narrowly losing his House seat in Orange County, California, to Hispanic financial analyst Loretta Sanchez. Threatening to sue her for election fraud, Dornan called Sanchez a "liar" and said "the whole thing stinks to high heaven." Of course, sour grapes were to be expected from the former fighter pilot who once grabbed a fellow Congressman by the collar and called him a "draft-dodging wimp." Sanchez's campaign manager, John Shallman, spoke for many when he said of Dornan, "He's been, and continues to be, a national disgrace...
...Individuals can also sue for racial discrimination," Ryan said, "and I'm not sure that being refused a same-sex ceremony is the same thing. The issue has to be closely examined and a policy should be formulated...