Word: fee
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Under the so-called American rule, lawyers' fees in the U.S. are not generally charged to the loser, as they are in England, for example. Justice Byron White conceded for the majority that "the encouragement of private action to implement public policy has been viewed as desirable in a variety of circumstances." But, he concluded, Congress has not "extended any roving authority to the Judiciary to allow counsel fees ... whenever the courts might deem them warranted." Siding with William Brennan in disagreement, Thurgood Marshall cited a number of "judge-made exceptions" to the American rule and argued that courts...
White responded that such a rule would mean fee awards in suits based on "virtually all congressional output." Congress has already provided for lawyers' fees for "private attorneys general" in a number of laws-notably Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination in places of public accommodation. White would leave it to the nation's legislators rather than the courts to decide whether to extend the principle. One self-appointed public attorney general, Ralph Nader, quickly vowed to ask Congress to do just that. Otherwise, he says, the ruling "is going to have...
...determine their motives and their ability to rear a child from another culture. After the home-study, it may take a year or longer before the parents are matched with a child and the adoption process is completed. Many of the people involved in the adoption of foreign children fee, that in the furor over the orphan airlift, many critics completely overlooked the amount of time, thinking and preparation that goes into adoption, and focused instead on the would-be parents who rushed to adoption agencies at the time. "There was a lot of emotionalism prompted by the Vietnam crisis...
Muhammad Ali, world heavyweight boxing champion, has "firmly accepted" an invitation to speak at Class Day ceremonies here on June 11, and has waived his customary 53000 speaking fee for the appearance...
Kilroy said that Ali decided to waive his fee requirement in this case "because it is such a great honor to have been chosen by the student body on an occasion like this, and because he has been told that he will be receiving an honorary degree...