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...Industries. Later, the marriage soured. With a huge fortune at stake, the Rosenstiels began fighting in court over his contention that her Mexican divorce was invalid, thus annulling their marriage and with it her claims to his money. In 1964, his lawyer (Roy Cohn) finally beat her lawyer (Louis Nizer) with a trial court decision holding that Mexico lacked jurisdiction over Mrs. Rosenstiel because she was in fact a New York resident when the divorce was granted. As a result, she was still Mrs. Kaufmann and had never been Mrs. Rosenstiel...
...plot and the stars alone would have drawn a crowd on Broadway. The lawyers were Louis Nizer and Roy Cohn. The defendant was Millionaire Songwriter Alan Jay Lerner, 46, who was being sued by his wife Micheline, 37, in New York Supreme Court, for a separation settlement and custody of their son Michel, 6. But the lyrics were what really juiced up the show. Micheline testified that Lerner threatened to kill her, played around with other women and roused her at 5 a.m. by going out to get "shots"-"vitamins," he explained, merely vitamins, to help him write faster. Micheline...
...York Democrats have been scratching around for months trying to find a candidate to oppose Republican Senator Kenneth Keating next November. Now a new name has been suggested. "I have reached a stage in life," said famed (My Life in Court) Attorney Louis Nizer, 62, "in which I would prefer to give such talent as I may have to public service rather than private clients." And he added: "I shall be earnestly receptive to the nomination, making no pretense, according to the political rule, that I am reluctant unless the honor is forced upon...
...York appeals court lopped nearly $3,000,000 from the $3,500,000 libel verdict won in July 1962 by Radio-TV Entertainer John Henry Faulk. While he was waiting for the latest verdict, Faulk's legal costs grew to the point where Attorney Louis Nizer claims they already outrun the $550,000 of the award...
...CASE OF LIBEL, adapted by Henry Denker from Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer's account of the Quentin Reynolds-Westbrook Pegler libel fracas, is tame theater fare, but courtroom drama buffs may relish it, and Van Heflin is a peppery paladin of justice...