Word: client
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be appealed to the California Supreme Court, which handed down the Dorado decision that started all the commotion. Along with an editorial blast at Dorado, the San Francisco Examiner last week ran a cartoon reducing the decision to its ultimate absurdity: a lawyer's claim that his client should be shielded even from the incriminating implications of a court appearance...
...tailspin ever since. Does Escobedo apply only to precisely similar situations? Or does it mean that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and to silence automatically invalidates his confession? If interrogation requires the physical presence of a lawyer, will he not obviously advise his client to say nothing? Worried police officers now fear that as a result even valid confessions will be virtually eliminated. The Supreme Court has let 13 months pass without clarifying Escobedo. Presumably it is waiting to see whether its decision has had the intended effect of forcing police to do more...
After collecting $300,000 in backing from both U.S. and Latin American businessmen, the Times assembled a 40-man staff, opened bureaus in Washington, Miami, Mexico City and Buenos Aires. The Times became a welcome client of seven wire services, whose Latin American reporters grumble that their stories are rarely published in the U.S. press. In addition, the Times carries guest columns by persons prominent in Latin American affairs...
...defendant was the one corporate entity that many Americans would give their digit-dial Princesses to see haled into court: the telephone company. On behalf of Client Garrett, Attorney Garrett was suing the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. The specifics were a little vague, but they amounted to a charge of continued harassment over a period of four years. Attorney Garrett had only one witness-himself...
...then there was that $1,500,000 judgment. "It's just one of those flukes in the practice of law," said Attorney Wright, a little bit dazed. Chuckled Attorney Garrett, as he strode off arm in arm with his client: "Well, you win a few, lose...