Word: koskoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books recount the family history: The Mellon Family by Burton Hersh (Morrow) and The Mellons by David E. Koskoff (Crowell...
Personal injury lawyers are beginning to fight back. Attorneys in New York and California have complained to the Federal Trade Commission, urging that corrective ads be ordered. Two weeks ago, Bridgeport, Conn., Lawyer Theodore Koskoff filed a lawsuit on behalf of four plaintiffs awaiting jury trials, charging the insurance companies with what amounts to jury tampering...
...Koskoff's suit points out that in some ads, the insurers claimed 1 million product liability suits are being brought each year; the Interagency Task Force put the figure at no more than 70,000. At least one jury verdict, in a Milwaukee suit, was thrown out because a juror brought an insurance ad into the jury room. Still, says Douglas Alspaugh, Aetna Life & Casualty advertising director, "when you try to affect people's thinking, you can't help whether they take their awareness into a jury room or a cocktail party...
According to Bobby Seale, Sams was on the list of "non-functionary" Party members at the time of the murder. Lonnie McLucas's attorneys, Theodore and Michael Koskoff, wanted to call witnesses who would have testified about Sams' previous behavior, but this information was deemed irrelevant by the court. One witness would have described a similar episode in Sam's past when he bound and threatened to murder a man be accused of being an informer in San Francisco. Two women would have testified that Sams had attempted to rape them...
Daily Lessons. Said the elated defense attorney, Theodore Koskoff: "The judge was fair, the jury was fair, and, in this case, a black revolutionary was given a fair trial." Equally pleased was Judge Harold M. Mulvey, whose calm demeanor and evenhanded rulings became daily lessons on how well the judicial system can work. Mulvey told the jurors that they had shown "the whole wide world" how earnest they had been about returning a fair verdict. Kingman Brewster, whose remarks in April provoked hot arguments, was silent last week. "Absolutely no comment," he said. "And no comment on my no comment...