Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morgan's return to prison set the stage for his crowning achievement. While at Leavenworth, he brought a lawsuit against the warden and the chief medical officer. Both, he contended, had ordered "unqualified inmates" to inoculate him with a drug that gave him permanent injuries. Claiming that they were acting "under color" of federal office at the time, the two men got their case removed from a state to a federal court...
Lardner said he would rather forget Come the Revolution, a political satire. "If my play were produced, besides getting bad reviews it would probably provoke a lawsuit from Mrs. Onassis," he said...
...tried in the storm and tension of emotions between old friends who had become bitter enemies. And in the thunder echoed such words as frame-up, dishonesty, fraud and concocted perjury." Thus, in London, did a member of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords describe the bitter lawsuit involving Maria Callas and two Greek shipowners, Aristotle Onassis and Panaghis Vergottis. At stake was 51% of the shares in a $3,000,000 freighter that Maria said the men had given her as a token of friendship that was to provide for her old age. Onassis never questioned...
...nonvoters is suggested by Eugene McCarthy's awkward behavior these days. After the Democratic convention, he declared in Biblical tones: "We will proceed as a Government in exile, and as a people in exile." The result has certainly been confusing. In New York, McCarthy joined a successful lawsuit to have his name removed from the ballot, thus preserving Humphrey's slim chance to win the state's 43 electoral votes. Yet, in campaigning for antiwar congression?! candidates in California, McCarthy has done nothing to discourage a massive write-in vote for himself. In California, this could cost...
...They would not have interfered. But Mr. Watson's book dealt with an arcane problem of science, a still more difficult problem of the scientific personality, a highly subjective question of libel, and an even more inassessable threat of legal action. On sidestepping a professional squabble or avoiding a lawsuit, one may assume, the Corporation saw no question of principle. To be sure they also failed to see that these were questions on which an occasional gathering of excellent but inexperienced laymen would inevitably be uninformed. They did seek advice from their lawyers. But they did not recognize that this...