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Rather than take a cut of his client's judgment, Mitchelson, who normally charges at least $100 an hour, looked elsewhere to get his fees paid. Where? The state of California. Under a rarely applied California law, a court may require the state to pay attorneys' fees "in any action which has resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest." The right in this case, of course, is to sue a live-in mate for "palimony." Local lawyers say chances are slim that the state will foot Mitchelson's bill. Even...
...other institutions of higher education North and South." Last fall its predominantly white campuses had a greater percentage of black students than Harvard (6% vs. 5.02%) and the State University of New York (5.2%). At U.N.C.'s Chapel Hill campus, blacks in professional programs such as medicine and law make up 9.2% of enrollment...
Burger's sleuthing struck some court watchers as consistent with his deep concern about press coverage of the court. "He intensely dislikes the press," says Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson, a former Supreme Court law clerk. "He is convinced that the way he runs things is right, but when put in a critical light it unnerves him." ABC's O'Brien, 35, a lawyer who worked as a television reporter in New Orleans before joining the network two years ago, may have scored an unmistakable coup in revealing the two decisions, but some journalists wondered whether...
...surface, it appeared quite simple. Felker has spent lavishly to turn the sophisticated men's monthly into a more macho twice-monthly, with expanded coverage of law, business, sports and gadgets of the good life. Yet advertisers remained cool to the venture, losses mounted, and Felker had to give Harmsworth most of his own stock in Esquire in return for more working capital. "The foundation for a successful publication had been made, and I could definitely see the time two years from now when we would be in the black," Felker insisted. "We were putting out a magazine that...
...very much an Atlanticist and who was even accused at times of being slavishly indulgent to U.S. interests. Gone too will be the close relationship with David Owen, Labour's outgoing Foreign Secretary, and his friend the British Ambassador to Washington, Peter Jay, who as Callaghan's son-in-law can expect his replacement to be one of the first acts of the Conservative government...