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...Kansas City, a district court jury awarded $110,000 to Mrs. Maxine Cornish, wife of a Pittsburg (Kans.) State College history professor, after it became convinced that her eye damage had been brought on by Aralen, a drug she took to ease her arthritis. Last week the Ohio Supreme Court upheld a lower-court ruling that Columbus Housewife Faye Oppenheimer was not entitled to similar damages because she exceeded the drug's recommended dosage...
...Trade Commission has so often been confused, cranky and slow-moving in the past that Washington officials have dubbed it "the Old Lady of Pennsylvania Avenue." Last week, however, the old lady kicked up her heels over a victory that greatly increased both her prestige and power. Overruling two lower-court decisions, the Supreme Court held that the FTC acted correctly when, in 1962, it ordered Colgate-Palmolive and the Ted Bates ad agency to stop using a mock-up of Plexiglas and sand to demonstrate on TV that Palmolive Rapid Shave could make it easy to "shave" sandpaper. From...
...school boards constitutionally obliged to remedy school segregation caused by housing patterns? No, implied the Supreme Court last spring when it refused to review a lower-court decision permitting the Gary, Ind., board to ignore de facto segregation. Are school boards constitutionally empowered to remedy de facto if they wish to? Yes, implied the Supreme Court when it refused to review a decision last week by the New York Court of Appeals...
Trickle by Trickle. But what could Solicitor General Cox say about Ollie's Barbecue in Birmingham? In that second case of the day, Cox was himself appealing a lower-court decision that found Title II could not constitutionally reach a strictly local restaurant...