Word: courts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican county auditor, seemed a candidate well equipped to benefit from Stokes' color and the old-country orientation of Cleveland's working-class population. Of Czech background. Perk is married to an Italian-American and has a daughter-in-law of Slovenian descent. He did not openly court racist sentiment, but did concentrate on white audiences in the ethnic enclaves. Perk, said the Cleveland Plain Dealer, seemed to be campaigning for mayor of Prague or Warsaw. His tactics nearly worked. Stokes' victory was narrow, 3,700 votes out of a total of 239,000, but four years...
...order, which set guidelines for carrying out the Supreme Court directive of the week before, was issued by Bell, a Georgian, and two fellow Southerners on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. It made it clear that the time for litigation had run out and promised a period of painful readjustment in the Mississippi schools. It also constituted a major rebuke for the Nixon Administration's kid-glove policy toward segregation. "You can complain and feel bad," Bell told local school officials, "but there's nothing you can do about...
...basic protection plan would cut insurance premiums, Keeton claims. At present 23 cents of every premium dollar goes to court costs and attorney's fees. For example, the average settlement in cases under $100 ultimately costs the insurance company more than seven times that amount due to lengthy and complicated court proceedings. The Keeton plan, which settles cases without regard to fault. would largely eliminate that expense, he said...
...basic protection plan would greatly speed up the claims process, he said. because claims could be settled by direct dealings with the insurance companies without long delays caused by court actions...
Chief opposition to the bill will come from trial lawyers, who get much of their income from the type of court proceedings that the basic protection plan would claimant. Keeton said...