Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dudley House would have been responsible for any losses the production might incur, and in the case of a lawsuit against the producer, Harvard might become involved, a University official stated...
...wickedly, "I have something for you," then heaved the something on the stage and scooted out a side exit. Carroll shrieked in terror, thinking maybe it was a bomb. But it was only paper-a summons ordering her to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court to answer a $66,377.50 lawsuit filed by Warner Brothers over a contract squabble. "I feel this is one of the most insensitive things I've ever heard of done to an actress," huffed Carroll, reading the document to her enthralled audience (wild applause...
...Justice Department moved up for "active consideration" a test lawsuit to desegregate schools now receiving federal aid because their enrollments have been "impacted," i.e., increased by the addition of a substantial number of children of federal workers. At stake is more than $250 million in federal aid now granted to schools attended by 1.6 million children, many in the South. The mere threat of a test case brought anguished cries from South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who labeled it "a flagrant act of economic blackmail...
...next exploit, a lawsuit charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest, was a convenient cover for the most audacious escape in policemen's memory. He got outside accomplices to smuggle him a padlock in the Law Courts, went to the toilet with two guards. When they removed his handcuffs outside. Alfie bundled them into the lavatory, snapped the padlock onto screw eyes inserted on the door by his pals, and vanished in crowded Fleet Street. Though he was recaptured at the airport five hours later. Hinds slipped out of Chelmsford Prison in less than a year and returned...
...last fall went to court for resisting plumbing improvements to his Greenwich Village digs. Latest cause célébre was a complaint that his printer and a book dealer had peddled a number of his original manuscripts without authorization. Cummings was so agitated that he signed the lawsuit with upper-case initials...