Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard E. McLaughlin, Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles, has written the City Council that "a very large proportion of the payment markings...have been created without the knowledge or approval of the Department of Public Works and, in consequence, are without legal standing before the courts of the Commonwealth...
...sharp rebuttal for plaintiffs, President Joseph Kelner of the American Trial Lawyers Association last week attacked the defense monograph as a "radical abandonment" of "dignified and customary" methods of legal reform. According to Kelner, only 2% of all claims ever go to verdict, defendants win more than 50% of the verdicts, and judges are well-equipped to set aside excessive awards...
...passed into the hands of the three other trustees who direct the corporation that was set up in 1952 by Marshall Field III. They are George B. Young, a lawyer who is also corporation president; Edward I. Farley, who is senior vice president; and Howard Seitz, who has been legal counselor to the Field family for more than 20 years...
...example, where the Federal Government has spent nearly $21.5 billion on water development, the price of subsidized irrigation water is unrealistically low-from one-third to one-tenth of the actual cost of delivering it. Says University of Washington Law Professor Ralph W. Johnson, an authority on the legal and economic problems of water: "It is time we stopped thinking about water as a unique commodity, governed by novel rules outside the ordinary economic pattern. It is no more unique than food, clothing or shelter...
...South. Its cities were not intellectual and cultural centers. Its planter-family leadership was generally rural and withdrawn. Its economy was agrarian and tied increasingly to a single crop. Its immigrants (the Negroes) were never assimilated, but were held apart in an arbitrary and bifurcated social structure. Its legal system depended on a punctilious, vague, and largely unwritten code of honor. And its preachments on the state's right of secession nourished a colonial mentality in the South long after the rest of America had recognized itself as a nation...