Word: legalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice president for community affiars, yesterday presented a letter to the planning board which said Harvard's legal counsel had advised that a moratorium would be "contrary to applicable principles...
...including electric plugs with two prongs instead of three and a safety railing four inches too low. Deeply hurt, Pinga asked himself: "My God, how can I be guilty? I haven't even had a trial." So he challenged the charges in court and spent $1,500 in legal fees to beat a $90 fine. His heart went out to the young OSHA inspector who broke down on the witness stand and admitted that her only qualification was a 40-hour series of OSHA seminars. But Pinga is convinced that his fight was worthwhile. Thumping a thick tome of OSHA...
...less expensive Chevrolet power plant. The discovery led to a revelation that GM had put Chevy engines not only into Oldsmobiles, but into some 1977 Buicks and Pontiacs as well; GM became the target of about 250 state and private lawsuits. Last week, after months of legal maneuvering, the company reached a settlement with 44 state attorneys general, who had been suing on behalf of all "Chevymobile" buyers in their states, that should end the great engine flap...
...will offer about 75,000 Chevymobile owners living in the 44 states $200 in cash each, or about $120 more than the estimated difference in value between Chevy and other engines. The company will also give each car owner a transferable three-year or 36,000-mile warranty. The legal officers of California, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee refused to accept the settlement, presumably because they still hope to collect fines and get more for car owners in their states by pressing their suits. It is quite likely, however, that the U.S. district court in Chicago will both approve...
...case may have a lasting effect in showing the power of a coalition of state legal officers. Illinois Attorney General William Scott, who started the whole affair by investigating Siwek's complaint, notes that this is the first time so many state attorneys general have banded together to fight a case on behalf of consumers against a giant national company. Says Scott: "We really formed a national public service law firm that could prove effective again in the future" if another company gives grounds for reactivating the coalition...