Word: fee
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There was a time when New Mexico's $2,550 filing fee kept candidates for the U.S. Senate to a perhaps unfair, but undeniably merciful minimum. Recently, however, the fee was declared unconstitutional, loosing a flood of 40 filings before the closing date last week. The throng of candidates wanting to be Senator from New Mexico includes a wrestling promoter, a university professor, an artist-philosopher, an airline mechanic and an assortment of housewives...
Each House will still have to obtain a license before reinstating the sale of liquor. The fee for this special "Wine and beer" license...
...then Washington State attorney general, John O'Connell, to handle suits for triple damages against 24 electrical manufacturers that had conspired to fix prices at an improperly high level. Alioto was to be paid 15% of whatever he could recover, up to a maximum fee of $1,000,000. He eventually got the manufacturers to pay $16.2 million to his clients-the state of Washington, three cities, one port authority and eight public utility districts. Along the way, however, O'Connell consented to lift the $1,000,000 ceiling on Alioto's fee; Alioto got $2.3 million...
Alioto had turned over $802,814 of his fee to O'Connell and O'Connell's deputy, George Faler. Accused of conflict of interest, the attorney general responded that state officials have a right to practice law in their spare time. O'Connell said that he had worked on the case not only for the state but on behalf of his spare-time clients, the public utility districts. The fee from Alioto had been for that nonofficial work. Claiming that they had been unaware of all the Laocoon lawyering, the clients went to court...
...felt the plaintiffs all knew that the fees were being shared and that the ceiling had come off," said Jury Foreman Gilbert Scott. Moreover, "We thought that the plaintiffs got their money's worth." But the three are not yet home free. They now face a second trial on criminal counts. The Federal Government has charged them with conspiracy and mail fraud in connection with the contention that their fee-splitting amounted to bribery of public officials...