Word: chicago
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Many a man has been corrupted by fine feathered friends, but one of the issues in the breakup of Robert and Dorothea Curley's marriage must be unique. Dorothea, 38, filed for divorce in Chicago after 18 years of marriage, three children and, at last count, 35 ducks. During a support hearing, she complained that the ducks her husband kept as pets upset the neighbors with their noise and untidy habits...
...sympathetic judge issued a court order for the removal of the birds in May. But last week Robert, 41, a former Chicago cop, told the judge that when he tried to give them to friends, there were no takers. Dorothea testified that her estranged husband actually had not tried very hard to get rid of the ducks and had been showing up at the house daily to feed them. Added her lawyer: "There are still 35 of them, and that doesn't include the duckling that got stepped on by the family dog and died." Robert's attorney...
...with a lower rate. The merchant obligingly sends an empty box, and the customer walks out with the goods. A variant is to send the purchase to a friend in another state. Rob, an accountant, saved $600 on a $12,000 painting by having the gallery mail it from Chicago, where the state sales tax is 5%, to a friend in Indiana. Rob collected the painting and paid no sales tax whatsoever...
Judges are quick to assert that they are simply enforcing the laws and the Constitution. "Judges, unlike Presidents, Congressmen and lawyers, cannot generate their own business," says Federal Judge Prentice Marshall, who halted discriminatory hiring and promotion practices in the Chicago police department despite Mayor Richard Daley's vow to fight the decision. Whether by default or design, the judiciary increasingly has the last word on important social questions...
Totally exempt from discipline are what Frank Greenberg, past president of the Chicago Bar Association, calls "the gray mice": judges who "lack the scholarship, the temperament, the learning" and are "simply in the wrong occupation." Says Greenberg, a member of the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board: "There is not a damn thing the discipline system can do about them...