LITTLE ROCK: Never let it be said that the President's lawyers are not an optimistic bunch. In the midst of a grand jury probe into the Monica Lewinsky affair, facing subpoenas on all sides and a loose cannon of a press secretary, Clinton attorney Bob Bennett found the time late Tuesday to file a 56-page motion}] with U.S. District Judge Susan Webber -- insisting that she toss the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit out of court. Bennett's comrades put their best spin on a brazen motion: "There's no such thing as a slam dunk in this business, but we feel the facts and the law are very much in our favor," said one.
The motion for summary judgment was made on the grounds that Jones had made no specific legal complaint -- the infamous alleged hotel room incident notwithstanding -- beyond "failing to get flowers on Secretaries Day" from the former governor.
Bennett added that Jones had spent "99 percent of her discovery efforts attempting to substantiate that President Clinton made sexual advances to other women." It was, of course, out of Jones' suit that the Lewinsky specter first rose to haunt the White House. Legal experts begged to differ on that score, at least: Establishing a pattern of behavior is a perfectly common tactic in any lawsuit. Said John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, which is funding Jones' case: "The bottom line here is that this is an attempt to avoid a trial that will embarrass the President." You don't say.Keeping Up With the Joneses
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LITTLE ROCK: Never let it be said that the President's lawyers are not an optimistic bunch. In the midst of a grand jury probe into the Monica Lewinsky affair, facing subpoenas on all sides and a loose cannon of a press secretary, Clinton attorney Bob Bennett found the time late Tuesday to file a 56-page motion}] with U.S. District Judge Susan Webber -- insisting that she toss the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit out of court. Bennett's comrades put their best spin on a brazen motion: "There's no such thing as a slam dunk in this business, but we feel the facts and the law are very much in our favor," said one.
The motion for summary judgment was made on the grounds that Jones had made no specific legal complaint -- the infamous alleged hotel room incident notwithstanding -- beyond "failing to get flowers on Secretaries Day" from the former governor.
Bennett added that Jones had spent "99 percent of her discovery efforts attempting to substantiate that President Clinton made sexual advances to other women." It was, of course, out of Jones' suit that the Lewinsky specter first rose to haunt the White House. Legal experts begged to differ on that score, at least: Establishing a pattern of behavior is a perfectly common tactic in any lawsuit. Said John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, which is funding Jones' case: "The bottom line here is that this is an attempt to avoid a trial that will embarrass the President." You don't say.