Word: courts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tommy and his parents die, said the court, "Jerry will have no concerned, intimate communication so necessary to his stability and optimal functioning." Last week, as the Strunks recuperated from their surgery, which so far has been free of any medical complications, Jerry probably never felt more useful to his brother Tommy...
...young lawyers who run the OEO Legal Services Program see themselves as ombudsmen for the poor. As such, they do more than represent individual indigents in minor court actions. They also sue state and local governments on behalf of welfare recipients, migrant workers and other large groups of poor people. The growing success of such broad test cases may be measured by the opposition that has surfaced in the U.S. Senate...
...Inquirer, to live the rest of his life in the City of Brotherly Love and to uphold "the great traditions" of the newspaper. Annenberg stopped living in Philadelphia this past April when his long friendship with Richard Nixon got him a new address in London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Last week he announced he was also giving up the Inquirer. He sold both the morning Inquirer and its sister paper, the afternoon Daily News, to Knight Newspapers for about $55 million...
...unions may have a friend in court. The day after the strike began, a federal court in New York attacked Boulwarism. It ruled that G.E. had violated the National Labor Relations Act in 1960 by refusing to furnish information requested by the union, trying to deal directly with union locals and presenting a personal-accident-insurance program on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. Judge Irving Kaufman chided the company for its "patronizing attitude" and charged it with an overall failure to bargain in good faith...
...Congress approves and allocates enough money. Nixon's proposals will make some major advances toward what he called "a just marketplace." The main items, many of which Nader has been campaigning for: > Consumers for the first time will be permitted to join together in "class actions" in federal court and share the legal expenses of suing manufacturers and merchants guilty of deception. Convicted manufacturers will have to bear all legal costs and pay damages to all who sue. Nixon's proposal, however, does not go as far as Nader and others have demanded. Class-action suits would...