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Facing a double explosion of rate increases for liability insurance and lawsuits that seek compensation for personal injuries, 16 state legislatures have reacted by placing limits on the damages that courts can award. In Colorado and Florida, the new laws went into effect on July 1. But just under the deadline, long lines of lawyers formed in both states last week to file suits. On Monday fully 1,000 suits were launched in Denver's district court; 100 would be normal. A record 643 suits were filed in Miami's Dade County courthouse on the same day, almost three times...
...ceilings on damage awards in Florida, unlike those in Colorado, would apply only to injuries suffered after July 1. Thus the predeadline stampede there was unnecessary. Lawyers, who get paid large sums for understanding statutes, had apparently misread the Florida...
...Colorado Republican Ken Kramer, who is running for the Senate seat Gary Hart will vacate this year, normally votes with the President. But on the trade bill Kramer voted against Reagan. Joining him was Tim Wirth, the Democratic candidate for the Hart seat. Republican Congressman Henson Moore of Louisiana used to be an ardent free trader. But he is running against ! Democratic Congressman John Breaux for the Senate, and both voted for the bill...
...closed to women and I was irate at that, but I made an individual response. I disguised myself up as a boy, got my friends to sneak me in, and studied there for a night," recalls Margit Johansson '61, a research associate in Womens Studies at the University of Colorado. "My feelings were there, but there was no women's movement to back...
Some former Radcliffe students say they felt vaguely dissatisfied, but "we weren't conscious of a national pattern," says Myra Lakoff Rich '61, now a history professor at Colorado...