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...tailored blue blazer, striped shirt and blue-and-white tie - the same outfit he had worn on his return to Athens- Caramanlis appeared to a tumultuous welcome and a display of fireworks that was far and away the most colorful and expensive of the three rallies. He was the Eisen hower of the campaign, a father figure who, despite the fashionable crowd, appealed to Greeks from every walk of life...
...story presented a different sort of problem for Gail Eisen, who spent several weeks sifting through mountains of Watergate reportage. She was especially interested in locating White House denials of specific Watergate stories and then ascertaining whether the stories or the denials had been correct. "It was often frustrating," she says, "but having begun digging on any one of them, I couldn't give up. It turned out that the press had committed precious few errors...
Seven years ago, Morton Eisen, a New York City wholesale shoe salesman, became convinced that his stockbroker had charged excessive fees. All other buyers and sellers of odd lots of stock (fewer than 100 shares), Eisen figured, were discriminated against in the same manner. He brought a class action on behalf of all who had paid the inflated fees-a total that has now reached 6,000,000 people-and he won a signal victory. Smaller class actions had long been common, but in Eisen's case a U.S. court of appeals held for the first time that federal...
Last week Eisen's case was back before the same U.S. court of appeals. This time the court decided that the suit was too unmanageable and should be dismissed. Eisen had conceded that he was unable to pay for millions of individual notices to other members of the class, and the court held that that was a legal necessity. Moreover, the court observed, the mere cost of sending each claimant his share of the damages (the average claim was $3.90) might well use up the entire award...
...decision withstands planned appeals, Eisen's class action is finished, and so, too, are virtually all other similar mass suits. Noting that many such suits had been brought as "legalized blackmail" to force settlements from companies unwilling to face the cost or risk of fighting the actions, Federal Judge Harold Medina, who wrote the decision, called it "a landmark." Replied Mark Green, a legal activist who works with Ralph Nader: "I'd call it a land mine...