Word: harper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cast of fine actors to Duluth, then stranded them on a back road halfway between Hysteria and Catatonia. Virtually every character is either deranged or noisome. The big debate is over which daughter loves Dad (Charles Durning) more: Kate, who insists on shooting the family horse, or Rita (Tess Harper), who wants to save it. The film should have been put out of its misery long before. They shoot movies, don't they? Yes, but few so spectacularly egregious as this...
...little encouragement and he kept up his renegade lifestyle until he finally got put in prison at age 35 for the armed robbery of a chicken shack. The others, like "Half-Man" Carter who would work three different jobs at a time just for something to do, or "Moose" Harper, who found religion, did the best they could...
...judges, who are retired from the regular bench, preside for fees that usually range from $150 to $300 an hour. In many cases, they act merely as arbitrators or nonbinding mediators. But in California and in at least a dozen other states, they can also conduct proceedings -- like the Harper- Lorimar trial -- that have most of the trappings of regular court sessions, including depositions, witnesses and verdicts. The parties in the Harper- Lorimar dispute will jointly pay court costs of $15,000 a week, including $250 an hour for Judge Hogoboom. The case will be decided by a panel...
...More and more parties are agreeing to use the system," says Harper's attorney, Barry Langberg. The major reason is cost control. An early court date saves on attorney fees. So does the shorter proceeding that often results from special agreements between the two sides, such as a pact not to challenge the credibility of each other's expert witnesses. The parties can also select a judge with experience relevant to their case, instead of taking the randomly assigned jurists of the public courts...
...relatively small number of cases in which both parties want to come to agreement -- for example, in disputes between business partners who want to go on working together. But to keep growing, the private outfits continue to come up with new offerings. If either side in the Harper-Lorimar case is unhappy with the eventual verdict, for example, some of the rent-a-judge outfits have a new option they could always look into: rent-an-appeals-judge...