Word: courts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanberry sought $36,000 in damages. Mrs. Hanberry, a retired dancer and movie bit player in her 60s, claimed that the heels of her new shoes were unsafe on vinyl floors. She not only sued the store that had sold her the shoes but also haled the wholesaler into court along with the Hearst Corp., which had given the shoes its Good Housekeeping Consumer's Guarantee Seal...
...Misrepresentation." The fine print on the seal promises only that Hearst will replace a defective product that it endorses or refund the buyer's money. Now, however, a three-judge state appeals court in San Diego has ruled in Mrs. Hanberry's case that the magazine may be sued for damages when goods that it guarantees cause injury...
Reversing a lower court that threw out the suit against Hearst, the justices declared that when a magazine endorses a product "for its own economic gain and for the purpose of encouraging and inducing the public to buy it," the publisher should be liable for "negligent misrepresentation...
...recover damages, Mrs. Hanberry must now try to prove to a trial court that Good Housekeeping did not conduct adequate tests to determine whether the shoes had slippery heels. Even if she does not collect, the decision may well enable other Californians to hold Good Housekeeping strictly accountable for the products that it "guarantees...
...weeks before the scheduled "militant action," Johnson asked the faculty to endorse the use of force if necessary to defend the campus-and received a standing ovation. Then, with a day to go, he obtained a court order restraining the demonstrators from violence. When the police finally moved against the demonstrators, it was the judge's responsibility, not M.I.T...