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...fact, even business groups are concerned that the slackening of federal consumer protections, and the end of many product safety standards, will mean an increase in individual lawsuits, particularly in the area of product liability. Says Nashville Attorney James Neal, who represented the Ford Motor Co. in damage suits resulting from the design of the firm's Pinto: " I don't think there is anything unfair in the concept of a national agency setting national standards for a product. I would hate to see the policing of industries done through tort [personal injury] suits, because you get such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let the Buyers Beware | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...Louis Nizer, whose clients have included Blacklist Victim John Henry Faulk and major corporations in the film industry, commands a phenomenal $350 an hour, thus earning the equivalent of the nation's median annual income in approximately 44 hours. Admits former Watergate Special Prosecutor James F. Neal, now practicing law in Nashville: "Frankly, I don't want to disclose my hourly rate. I'm embarrassed by hourly rates-not just mine, but everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Fat Fees | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Officials on the scene found Neal J. Fitzgerald, the student, of Arlington, and Wayne Battle, of Somerville, arguing after their cars had allegedly collided...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Student Arrested in Accident That Leaves Man an Amputee | 7/7/1981 | See Source »

...regrettable because the Players have added a sensational new verse to the patter-song in which Gilbert's original recipe--including "the pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the Victory" and "the humor of Fielding (which sounds contradictory)"--is supplemented by additives like "the biceps of Ryan O'Neal" and "the eyeballs of Kermit the Frog...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Patience, Impatients | 4/23/1981 | See Source »

...fact, at the federal level, the N.R.A. has five full-time lobbyists, a group headed by Neal Knox, a sharp-penned columnist for various gun magazines. They are well-informed, savvy professionals, but occasionally their zeal exasperates, rather than impresses, even congressional allies. Last fall, the N.R.A. repeatedly tried to attach a bill loosening gun regulations onto a proposed, long-overdue revision of the federal criminal code. Several senatorial supporters of the N.R.A., including Republicans Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, were upset at the tactic, fearing that years of work on the code would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magnum-Force Lobby | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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