King Larry
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* Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
† Technically, only actions involving Continental Airlines as a party would be subject to the bankruptcy court’s purview.
* Hillblom’s theory was that Japanese men preferred blond women with long legs and would pay more for them.
* Simon says that he does not remember this incident.
* Hillblom had been interested in communications since the days that he’d envisioned a satellite fax network sending DHL’s clients’ documents instantly around the world, and DHL had even entered into a joint venture with the fax manufacturer Canon for a short time, but cellular telephony was an even more exciting prospect to Hillblom for a simple reason. “In the early days of U.S. cellular,” Lupo explains, “you could file as part of a lottery, and as long as you had engineering drawings, you’d file and then you’d negotiate with the other people who had filed, and then you might come up with an application and then you might get the license. So Larry ended up with three or four interests in different cellular companies.”
* CPMC Davies Campus.
* There is debate over the origin of the name. I will assume that it is a nickname for “Mindanao,” which was one of Hillblom’s favorite beaches in the Philippines.
* It would later emerge that $11 million had been paid, but the paperwork did not surface in time to give Lujan a different view of the events.
* Attitude (not altitude) is a combination of factors unique to every airplane and water situation.
* By this, Woodruff does not mean bribes but rather Hillblom’s willingness to hire outside lawyers and lobbyists to push his agenda. Of course, it probably did not hurt that Hillblom took groups of legislators on junkets to his ranch in Half Moon Bay and a ski chalet that he purchased in Méribel, France—where, according to some of them, he played video games by himself into the early hours.
* The child of a person who has written a will in which the child is not left anything and is not mentioned at all.
* A status granted by a court to lawyers who have not been admitted to practice in its jurisdiction, allowing them to participate in a particular case.
* The number that a mediator determines has the best chance of acceptance, rather than the number that he or she considers fair. It is typically given to both sides at the same time, with the condition that neither party can submit a counteroffer. It can only be accepted or rejected. And only if both sides accept the number are they made aware that the other side accepted.
* In 2001, three more children would come forward, when a stripper from Buffalo, New York, named Susan Bauer filed a triple paternity claim. Bauer demanded that her children’s DNA be tested against that of Hillblom’s family members, but her lawsuit was ultimately dismissed by Judge Alex Castro, citing the Hillblom Law, which remains in effect.
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