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WHAT WAS SCARIER: THAT TOM CRUISE MIGHT SUE YOU OR THAT SEAN PENN MIGHT PUNCH YOU? T.P. Well, Sean Penn is about 4 ft. 3 [M.S. laughs], so I'm definitely not scared of him. We're both fairly large guys. M.S. Yeah. I'm not scared of Sean Penn or Tom Cruise physically. Now legally, that's a different story...
...Smith finds herself on the front lines of an unlikely legal rights campaign. Along with other former prostitutes, she is trying to convince Illinois state senators to sign off on a bill that would allow current and former prostitutes to sue their pimps for emotional, physical and psychological damages in civil court. Only the states of Florida (1993), Minnesota (1994) and Hawaii (1999), as well as the federal government, have similar laws on the books, but Illinois would be the first state make it so that the plaintiff would not have to prove they were forced into the profession...
...hands and saying "It's tough being loved by idiots." The government-sanctioned French Council of the Muslim Faith (cfcm) tried to stop publication as an instance of "racial and religious abuse," but the case was dismissed on procedural grounds. cfcm president Dalil Boubakeur, who plans to sue every French paper that published the cartoons (for what, he hasn't said yet), told Time that "France has to realize the new social fact that Muslims are an important part of the population." Boubakeur alludes to an important point: the boundary between permissible and impermissible speech shifts in tune with changes...
...civil lawsuits from the Prime Minister. But the suits were dropped after Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej said in an annual televised birthday speech on Dec. 4 that government officials should not over-react to criticism or consult lawyers too quickly. Said the King: "Lawyers tell the PM to sue, to punish ... Do not punish. Punishment is not good...
...with anxious-looking young women, along with a few boyfriends, husbands and children. Because Illinois has no parental-notification law, Hope Clinic had been the easiest option for Missouri teens seeking to get an abortion without telling their parents. But the new Missouri law that makes it possible to sue anyone who provides an abortion to a Missouri resident under age 18 without written consent of a parent has Hope demanding proof of age of all prospective patients...