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PepsiCo's $1.26 Billion Case: How Did This Happen?

businessinsider.com | Erin Geiger Smith|Oct. 28, 2009, 8:02 AM |8 | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

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PepsiCo has been hit with a $1.26 billion judgment for failing to respond -- at all -- to a lawsuit. If someone sues you and you fail to show up, the ...

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Women Accused Of Gluing Man's Penis To Stomach Must Stand Trial

AP | ROBERT IMRIE | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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CHILTON, Wis. — A man whose penis was glued to his stomach testified Tuesday that a motel tryst with a girlfriend involving a bondage fantasy tu...

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Tort Liability

Eugene Volokh | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cheating Relationships, Marriage, Court Case, Divorce, Family Law, Libel, Hawaii, Cheating, Hawaii Supreme Court, Affairs, Politics News
Eugene Volokh

People should be free to leave their lovers, and even "flaunt[]" their new relationships, without a government agency deciding whether such behavior was "unreasonabl[e]".

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Los Angeles City College "Sexual Harassment" Policy Preliminarily Enjoined on First Amendment Grounds

Eugene Volokh | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

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Eugene Volokh

The professor apparently called the student a "fascist bastard" in front of the class for having supported Prop. 8 and refused to let the student finish the presentation.

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Bowoto v. Chevron: The Oil Men and the Juju Man

Scott Gilmore | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Human Rights, Alien Tort Statute, Race, Chevron, Bowoto, Business News, Bowoto v Chevron, Oil, Nigeria, Court Case, Bowoto vs Chevron, Politics News
Scott Gilmore

What happens when an oil company gets its back to the wall in a human rights lawsuit? Like a cornered hound, it goes on the attack.

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Bowoto v. Chevron: What's Really at Stake?

Daniel Firger | Posted 11.29.2008 | Business

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Daniel Firger

Since the state of the law is so unsettled on this point, the decision in Bowoto is likely to have a big impact on the way future human rights lawsuits are litigated. Chevron knows this, of course.

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Talking With The F.B.I.'s Undercover Source In Alaska's VECO Corruption Case

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Prewitt: "It's going to be a tight race, but Stevens could still win this thing. Stevens has been around so long, and we do have a very partisan situation up here in Alaska."

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Landmark Human Rights Trial Bowoto v. Chevron to Begin October 27th

Daniel Firger | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil, Court Case, Human Rights, Chevron, Nigeria, Bowoto, Bowoto vs Chevron, Bowoto v Chevron, Business News
Daniel Firger

For the first time, a U.S. company could potentially be held liable in U.S. courts for gross human rights abuses committed in their overseas operations.

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Exclusive Interview: Frank Prewitt, Author Of Last Bridge To Nowhere

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cbc, Corruption, Ted Stevens, Begich, Surveillance, Mccain, Don Young, Campaign, President, Sarah Palin, Craig, Nicholas Cage, Perps, Mark Begich, Oil Executives, Moose Poop, Alaska, Conviction, Democrat, Congress, 08, Bridge to Nowhere, Investigation, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Person of Interest, Barack, Jack Nicholson, Murkowski, Troopergate, Vice President, Court Case, Guilty Plea, Joe Biden 2008, Duke, Obama, Republican, Lisa Murkowski, Stevens, 2008 Campaign, Alaskan Politics, Corrupt Bastards Club, Confidential Source, Frank Murkowski, John McCain, Last Bridge to Nowhere, Hats, Frank Prewitt, 2008 Elections, 2008 Election, State Representative, Oil Companies, Delay, Witness, 08 Campaign, Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Oil, Fbi, State Senator, Lott, Inouye, Tasergate, Prewitt, Cunningham, Alaskanisms, Veco, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Prewitt: The book is my experience working as the confidential source who spent nearly four years helping the F.B.I. pry the lid open on the sordid world of political corruption in Alaska and Washington.

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