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san francisco (reuters) - two women who had taken care of koko, a gorilla who communicates with humans by sign language, have settled a lawsuit charging the president of its sanctuary urged them to show their breasts to the ape, a lawyer said on thursday.
nancy alperin and kendra keller had sued the woodside, california-based gorilla foundation, claiming its president had pressed them to bare their breasts for koko to help bond with the gorilla.
the two said foundation president francine patterson would interpret hand movements by koko as a demand to see human nipples. they declined and were later fired in an act of retaliation for not indulging what the lawsuit called koko's "nipple fetish."
the lawyer for the foundation said the two were fired for different reasons and that a county court earlier this year dismissed their sexual harassment and wrongful termination charges.
attorney todd roberts said the foundation agreed to settle the lawsuit to get on with its work. terms of the settlement were confidential, he added.
"we denied all of the allegations in the complaint and continue to deny the allegations," roberts said.
stephen sommers, a lawyer for the two women, declined to comment on the lawsuit and its settlement.
reuters
the electronic frontier foundation, an internet privacy interest group, has filed a lawsuit against at&t for making communications on their network available to the national security agency.
friday, the us government asked district judge vaughn walker to dismiss the case, saying that unauthorized disclosure of information by at&t may harm national security interests.
eff said in a statement last friday, that they have a declaration by a former at&t employee and several internal documents, stating that at&t used dragnet surveillance of its networks.
these documents also include information on a device installed in the san francisco at&t office, which apparently is able to scan large amounts of data to locate specific targets, as was reported in the san francisco chronicle last saturday.
“it appears the nsa is capable of conducting what amounts to vacuum-cleaner surveillance of all the data crossing the internet, whether that be people's e-mail, web surfing or other data,” the former at&t technician said in a statement released by his lawyers.
next month, judge walker will hold a hearing on whether the documents should be released to the public.
the unification church, apparently fearing the wrath of the education ministry, agreed to pay 230 million yen ($2.2 million) to a woman who said she was intimidated into donating huge sums to the group.if you’re unfamiliar with the unification church, here’s a short introductory video about the moonies’ rise to power in america.
a charlotte, nc, lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against fire among other things. within a month having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first premium payment on the policy, the lawyer filed claim against the insurance company. in his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." the insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason: that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. the lawyer sued and won. in delivering the ruling the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. the judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable fire, and was obligated to pay the claim. rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the "fires." after the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson! with his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.
new york - a hospital did nothing wrong when it tried to examine the rectum of a construction worker who had been hit on the head by a falling wooden beam, a jury found monday. after deliberating for about an hour, a state supreme court jury awarded nothing to brian persaud, who sued newyork-presbyterian hospital for unspecified damages. the panel found the hospital and its emergency room medical staff were not liable. persaud's lawyers, gerard marrone and gary defilippo, said he might appeal. "we're very disappointed," marrone said after the two-week trial. "it's a miscarriage of justice." the hospital's lawyer, jeffrey lawton, declined comment. marrone said persaud, 38, was injured while working at a construction site in midtown manhattan on may 20, 2003. persaud received eight stitches for a cut over his eyebrow at the hospital, but denied emergency room staffers' request to examine his rectum, the lawyer said. he said doctors told persaud the exam could help determine whether the accident caused spinal damage. when persaud resisted, staffers held him down while he begged, "please don't do that," marrone said. persaud hit a doctor while flailing around, so the staffers gave him a powerful sedative and performed the rectal exam, he said. hospital witnesses testified at trial that the exam was never completed, but marrone said that when persaud woke up he was handcuffed to a bed and had an oxygen tube down his throat and lubricant in his rectum. "he resisted because he didn't know what they were doing," defilippo said. "once he said he didn't want the rectal exam, everything should have stopped." defilippo said he believes the rectal exam was done as retaliation because his panicked client hit the doctor. a judge dismissed a misdemeanor assault charge that was filed against persaud because he hit the doctor. defilippo said his client is unemployed and has been unable to hold a job since the accident. source
