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1. San Francisco Bay Area Papers Are in Price War.

Subjects
*NEWSPAPERS, *PRICES, *ACTIONS & defenses (Law)
Abstract

Reports on the prices of newspapers in San Francisco, California, as of May 2000. Decline in the circulation of the `San Francisco Chronicle'; Plans to cut the price of the newspaper; Reason for reducing the price of the newspaper; Lawsuits filed against Hearst Corp. and the `San Francisco Chronicle.'

Published
2000

2. Mr Butt tells tobacco tales.

Author

Mestel, Rosie

Subjects
*PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of tobacco, *ACTIONS & defenses (Law), *UNIVERSITIES & colleges
Abstract

Reports that the University of California has won the right to distribute on the World Wide Web the internal documents and memos from cigarette manufacturer Brown & Williamson suggesting that the company was aware of the addictive and cancer-causing nature of cigarettes at least 30 years ago. Brown & Williamson's legal action to get the papers back, claiming that they had been stolen; Web site address.

Published
1995

3. Man Sues Hotel Over 75-Cent Newspaper.

Author

Harris, Elizabeth A.

Subjects
*ACTIONS & defenses (Law), *HOTEL occupancy taxes
Abstract

A California man is suing the Hilton Hotels Corporation for charging him 75 cents for a copy of the USA Today newspaper that he did not request, according to a complaint filed last week in federal court in San Francisco. The man, Rodney Harmon of Sacramento County, spent the night of March 28 in the Hilton Garden Inn Sonoma County Airport. When he left his room the next morning, he saw a copy of USA Today on the floor in front of his door, the familiar, bright blue logo peering up at him. But Mr. Harmon, 55, was not interested. He stepped over the paper and walked away. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2011

4. Judge dismisses lawsuit over tobacco research.

Subjects
*ACTIONS & defenses (Law), *UNIVERSITIES & colleges
Abstract

Reports that a judge has dismissed a suit against the University of California campus in San Francisco over the work of Dr. Stanton A. Glantz, a medical researcher who has been an outspoken critic of the tobacco industry. Details on the lawsuit filed by Californians for Scientific Integrity; Co-authorship of the book `The Cigarette Papers,' by Glantz; Reaction to the decision.

Published
1997