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...needless spasm of local hatreds had spoiled the atmosphere, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito canceled what would have been his first official visit to Rome. The flare-up involved Trieste, the Adriatic port city that has been disputed territory for many years and that nearly became a casus belli between East and West after World...
Attorney Boccardo, 59, is a longtime standout in the flamboyant brotherhood of personal-injury lawyers. His first part-time office in 1934 was in a mortuary; now his San Jose firm boasts 30 attorneys, ten investigators and the services of a doctor. "We used skeletons long before Mel Belli ever heard of them," he says. He claims to have won more $500,000-plus verdicts than anyone else. "I've got the record judgment in every county in California," he adds. Good as Boccardo declares himself to be, it has taken a recent association with two Reno lawyers...
...penchant for building the biggest particle accelerator in the world is combined with a formal training as a sculptor at the Academia Belli Arte in Rome. His most famous work-"a long kind of artsy triangle." According to one student critic-stands in Carl Kaysen's Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton...
...Belli explained that one of the main obstacles to the success of the revolution is the over-loaded court docket. "We must unclog the court calendars in order to bring the law to the people," he said...
...1940s, recalls San Francisco's Melvin Belli, "you'd walk into court suing a doctor, and the judge would laugh at you." Now many courts have made such suits easier. In several states, lawyers are allowed to cite medical textbooks as expert testimony in some malpractice cases. Under the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself), a plaintiff proves a major portion of his case when he shows that his injuries would not normally have occurred without negligence. In turn, the defendant is forced to produce evidence that he was not negligent. Doctors' changing...