Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unpopular people or unpopular causes-even if their efforts cost them dearly in money and community standing. In Birmingham, for example, Lawyer Paul Johnston last week began to pay the price of voluntarily representing FBI Informer Gary Rowe (by indirect request of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach) in a lawsuit filed by Ku Klux Klan Lawyer Matt Murphy Jr. "It's not too popular to be involved in such matters around here," said one lawyer. Johnston was voted out of his eminent law firm by his prosperous partners-including his father and brother-thereby joining a hardy band...
...shares of Texas Gulf stock, bought options on an additional 5,200 shares, or received company stock options to buy another 31,200 shares. In that time, the price of the stock had climbed from 17 to 34; it stood at 71 when the SEC filed its lawsuit last week...
...competition. Last January the movie-theater owners' federation even ventured a $20 million damage suit against the French national television network, which is run by the government. The charge: "unfair competition," which has reduced cinema attendance throughout France a full one-third since 1958. Their federation's lawsuit was thrown out, with the theater owners ordered to pay the court costs...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Relations, said yesterday that the Federal Court ruling against de facto segregation in Springfield schools would be a "powerful precedent" for a similar lawsuit in Boston...
...arboretum was the subject of a lawsuit against the University when Harvard moved a large quantity of plant materials and books to the University Herbarium in Cambridge. Friends of the arboretum charged that this was a violation of the original trust because the University was favoring botanical study over horticultural and arboreal work, as specified in Arnold's will...