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    Going Bananas: Chiquita Tried to Protect Its Workers and Got Mashed by Prosecutors

    By Robert Clifton Burns | April 2, 2007

    Chiquita Brands agreed in mid-March to pay a $25 million criminal fine over payments to a paramilitary group in Colombia made to protect the company's employees from threatened viol

  • Legal Times

    Warning: We�re Talking About Sex

    By Terry Diggs | September 19, 2005

    If Williams v. Attorney General had been just about female orgasm, most women would have known how to deal with the disappointment: Ooo . h . oo . h . h, god .

  • Legal Times

    How I Won the Pulitzer

    By William W. Bedsworth | February 20, 2006

    People think journalism is easy. It isn't. It's very, very hard. Woodward and Bernstein. You think y just got out of car and Deep Throat was standing in space next to ?

  • Legal Times

    Letters to the Editor: Contrary to Suggestion, Detainee Suits Have Not Gone Badly for Administration; plus more...

    December 11, 2006

    CONTRARY TO SUGGESTION, DETAINEE SUITS HAVE NOT GONE BADLY FOR ADMINISTRATIONTo the editor:You rightly focus on the importance of the numerous pending cases that c

  • Legal Times

    Still Scheming

    By Joel Cohen and Katherine A. Helm | March 23, 2009

    No one in the world believes that Bernie Madoff acted alone. How could he have? And probably no one believes that his family—that is, his sons, his brother, and/or his wife&m

  • Legal Times

    The Happy Warrior

    By Paul R. Michel and Sherman L. Cohn | May 15, 2006

    BY PAUL R. MICHELHe had already been chief judge of a national appellate court for 10 years when Congress made him chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal

  • Legal Times

    Plugging Leaks in the Bailout

    By Alan Morrison | November 10, 2008

    The bailout bill, formally titled the Emergency Economic Sta­bil­i­za­tion Act of 2008, has finally become law. Having morphed from a three-page authorization allow

  • Legal Times

    You Read It Here First?

    By James McGrath Morris | February 26, 2007

    As they come, this judicial first wasn't exactly front-page news � that is, if you are still in the habit of reading a quaint, old-fashioned newspaper. But in cyberspace the decision of

  • Legal Times

    What Happened to Mark Foley's Rights as a Congressman?

    By Melanie Sloan | November 6, 2006

    After the scandal broke over Rep. Mark Foley, the Department of Justice asked the former congressman's office to maintain all e-mails, instant-message logs, and papers. Although nearly a

  • Legal Times

    A Heartbreaking Case Of Staggering Unfairness

    By William Bedsworth | August 13, 2007

    Years ago, when my daughter Megan was in high school, I made the mistake of mentioning that when I was her age, I didn't have to learn about the Vietnam War because it hadn't started yet

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