Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alcoholic. The addict's symptoms-dilated eyes, shaky coordination, impaired depth perception -are not always obvious to even trained observers. Because most narcotics are illegal, company officials are cautious about accusing a worker of addiction or even examining his locker; a mistake could lead to a costly lawsuit. William Britter, security official at Western Electric's Los Angeles service center, says: "Most people will agree that employing an undercover agent or informant is the only way to get to the bottom of the problem...
...market by bringing out a machine remarkably similar to a couple made by Xerox Corp., which has long dominated the field. The venture is IBM's most ambitious foray into a new market in the decade since Thomas Watson Jr. took over as chairman. Xerox countered with a lawsuit charging 22 patent infringements and asking a federal district court in Manhattan to prevent IBM from selling its new product...
Last week the high court upheld the decision to hold the psychiatrist in contempt. In essence, the decision reaffirmed the state's waiver law. When a plaintiff makes his own mental condition an issue in a lawsuit, the court ruled, the need for accurate trial evidence overrides a psychiatrist's right to protect the confidentiality of what he knows. Even so, the court recognized a patient's right to avoid public embarrassment. It emphasized that judges should limit the scope of the inquiry in the light of "the nature of the injuries which the patient-litigant himself...
...Nixon little good, since the President had set out to influence the long-range trend of judicial decisions on desegregation, a trespass on the separation of powers doctrine in spirit if not in law. He denounced at some length the ruling of a Los Angeles trial judge in a lawsuit that is still in progress. Nixon described as "probably the most extreme judicial decree so far" a Superior Court command that the city school district establish nearly precise racial balance throughout its 561-school system. (Coleman calls Los Angeles "a smug Northern district that hasn't done a thing...
...York urbanologist named Paul Davidoff has decided to attack zoning in the courts. His first target is the affluent town of Oyster Bay on Long Island's North Shore, where he is advising the N.A.A.C.P. in preparing a lawsuit. His charge: "Land use control has been used to create a segregated society-one of de jure, not just de facto, segregation...