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Hughes Wins Fees in Whistle-Blower Case: Hughes Aircraft Co. said a federal judge in Los Angeles ordered a would-be whistle-blower to pay the company more than $140,000 in legal fees because the plaintiff pursued his lawsuit even after it was rejected by the court in March. Don H. Haycock, a lawyer and former Hughes manager who filed the suit in 1990, continued to pursue the case “for no other purpose than to harass Hughes,” U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon said in his order. Haycock, who alleged that Hughes mischarged labor time at one of its engineering laboratories between 1983 and 1987, said he will ask Kenyon to reconsider his order, adding, “I’m quite sure it will be reversed.”