Word: housen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kudos to the Wyoming jury who awarded $1.3 million to Margaret Housen for contracting gonorrhea. They have opened a veritable Pandora's box of litigation. Using their scale, contracting syphilis could bring a lucky person $750,000. Thanks to their precedent, purchasing no-fault sex insurance will become mandatory at puberty. Pity the uninsured who must resort to medical treatment rather than cashing in at the courthouse...
...affair between Margaret Housen, 35, a secretary in Washington, D.C., and Angier St. George Biddle Duke, son of Angier Biddle Duke, former U.S. ambassador to Spain and Denmark, would hardly have ranked as a celebrated coupling had not Housen contracted gonorrhea. When doctors told Housen that she probably could not have children as a result, she sued Duke in his home state of Wyoming. Housen's lawyer, Gerry Spence of Casper, cites his client's courage: "Imagine having the guts to come to a little Wyoming courtroom and cut away the shame and the stigma of the disease...