Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catherine Zak's insurance company will have to pay for the bottle they served to Donald Gwinnell back in 1980. After leaving the Zaks' home in Long Branch, N.J., Gwinnell smashed his car head on into a car driven by Marie Kelly, who sued. Last June the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the Zaks and other hosts could be found liable if they served liquor directly to a guest and sent him out drunk onto the highways...
...other top courts have followed New Jersey's lead, though New Mexico and Oregon have statutes that are similar in effect. Kelly, 31, armed with the court's ruling, went to trial last week to recover damages for her broken ankle and facial injuries. Her attorney argued that Gwinnell had downed the equivalent of 13 1 1/2-oz. shots of Scotch during his 90-minute visit; the Zaks, he said, had "poured and poured and poured." Before any witnesses could testify, the insurance companies settled. Kelly will get a total of $172,500, $100,000 of it from Gwinnell's insurance...
...watches the film for the fifth time in the Jewel, Cecilia (Mia Farrow) is well lost in pleasure. A New Jersey hash-house waitress, all thumbs and fanzine fantasies, she can remember whom Lew Ayres used to date but not who just ordered eggs over easy. So she has lost her job. Would that she could lose her husband Monk (Danny Aiello) so easily. He is a bruiser who spends his unemployed days pitching pennies with his pals, his nights alternately neglecting or abusing Cecilia. Her life is like a movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel...
Another Princeton student, who was suspended for cheating, is not using the university, claiming is part that the honor code is a violation to the public policy of the State of New Jersey, said Thomas Wright, the university's general council...
Noonan credits a remarkable extension of bribery laws to a remark- able source: the Nixon Administration. Stretching precedents, Nixon-appointed prosecutors invoked the Hobbs Act of 1946, originally aimed at union racketeers, against the Democratic Kenny machine in Jersey City. When the convictions were upheld, federal prosecutors brought similar charges against local officials throughout the country, thus beginning what Noonan calls "an effective federalization of the law of bribery...