Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gate told the ticket holder: Sorry, confirmed reservation or no, all the seats are taken. Considering who the grounded passenger was, it might have been better to roll out another plane. For litigious Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, unlike most travelers who are left at the gate, filed a lawsuit. He gathered evidence showing that Allegheny regularly overbooks (as do most airlines). Last week Federal Judge Charles Richey ruled that Allegheny bumps "wantonly" and "with malice." He tagged the airline for $50,000 in punitive damages, half for Nader and half for the Connecticut Citizens Action Group, which the consumer advocate...
...ruling providing guidelines for therapeutic abortions for the indigent on grounds of mental health, and adding: "If every poor person must bring a lawsuit every time her rights are infringed by the insensitivity or ignorance of city and hospital officials, all will be effectively deprived of their rights...
...size, its cohesiveness, its informality?means that you can accomplish things at lunch, in the street, or your friends come by on the way home." A young lawyer raised in New York City observes, "In New York, when you wanted a deposition from the other side in a lawsuit, you had to go through a heavy exchange of letters. Here I just pick up the phone and say, 'George, I need your client's deposition. Can we get together Wednesday?' So we do it then. No correspondence. No hassle." As Keating says, "There is a hell...
...About five of these parents even hinted of a possible lawsuit...
...gold's being stolen. Apparently, the gold has already been the object of pilferers in the area. Bailey argues that his clients are entitled to the full value of the gold, even though they will have to pay 50% of it to the Government. Bailey threatens a lawsuit if the Government fails to honor his clients' request. But there is reason to wonder if the affair will ever go that far. "It sounds like a new version of the old treasure of the Sierra Madre story," said one Treasury official. "Every couple of years somebody claims to find...