Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students who graduate each year from the university in Port-au-Prince, 1000 go into law; for law is the road to politics, and politics is the source of wealth...
...more judges are reaching decisions on the basis of need and ability to pay. Says Chicago Divorce Lawyer Russell Bundesen: "The controlling factors now are how much the husband earns, what his assets are, and what assets his wife has." In fact, in states like Florida, where the law forbids payment of alimony to a woman who has been divorced on grounds of her adultery, judges often overlook perfectly well-documented adultery charges and grant the divorce for extreme cruelty so that alimony may be assigned to a woman who needs it. When the dirty linen starts to be aired...
...guard against unfair treatment of insurance claimants, an "outrage" law has evolved out of cases that have come up in California courts. Under it, an insurance company may be sued for additional damages when emotional distress is suffered by persons whose legitimate claims are sidetracked or turned down for "false or frivolous" reasons. Insurance companies naturally do not like the law, and now their worst fears have been confirmed. Last week a jury in Orange County awarded an outraged policyholder $710,000 in damages. It was by far the largest sum ever handed down under the law...
...month for at least two years. Then it reversed itself and stopped payments on grounds that his injury was really an illness. Wearing a brace, Korean War Veteran Fletcher went to court to ask for $50,000 as compensation and $1,000,000 in punitive damages under the outrage law. The jury, no doubt impressed by the fact that he is the sole support of eight children, three foster children, two grandchildren and a wife, gave him the full $50,000 request, plus $660,000 as the insurance company's punishment. Itself outraged, Western Life quickly announced plans...
After he was barred from taking his seat in the 90th Congress, Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell naturally went to the federal courts. By so doing, he raised a rare point of constitutional law - not merely whether Powell could or should get his seat back, but when the judicial branch of the Federal Government could or should review the conduct of the legislative branch. The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals last week: the judiciary could review, but it shouldn...