Word: nunez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court. Ironic indeed is the fact that this basic lesson in elementary civics must be taught anew to, of all pupils, the very persons to whom we daily entrust our offspring for training and development as the leaders of tomorrow." So wrote New York Supreme Court Justice Emilio Nunez last week as he ruled against the United Federation of Teachers for ignoring a court injunction and striking New York City's public schools. U.F.T. President Albert Shanker was given a $250 fine and a 15-day jail sentence. The union itself was fined...
...violation of Condon-Wadlin.) The Taylor Law is an attempt to deal with a growing tendency among public-employee unions to ignore injunctions and strike anyway (TIME, Sept. 29). It holds unions responsible, where Condon-Wadlin used to be aimed against the individual employee. When the U.F.T. ignored Judge Nunez's injunction, the result was inevitable, at least in Nunez's mind...
...union's argument, he said, "is specious and sham." The son of Spanish immigrants who learned his respect for the law while working in the fish markets by day and law school by night, Nunez concluded his lecture to the teachers with a stern stricture: "Law means nothing unless it means the same law for all. This strike against the public was a rebellion against the Government; if permitted to succeed, it could eventually destroy Government with resultant anarchy and chaos...
...thoroughgoing defense. It hired St. Petersburg Attorney Robert Nunez and another local lawyer, dispatched two G.M. general counsels from Detroit, also sent down G.M. Engineer Horatio Shakespeare. To counter the claim that the Corvair's doors were weak, the company brought in a metallurgist from the University of Illinois and an accident specialist from U.C.L.A. G.M. reconstructed aspects of the accident by crashing three cars, took motion pictures of the crashes in both color and black and white...
Though the decision is only one jury's opinion and does not set a binding legal precedent, it will probably discourage future suits against Corvair. It has already influenced Lawyer Nunez's life in several ways. While gathering evidence for the trial, he searched long and hard for the death car. Tracing it to a used-car lot 213 miles from the scene of the accident, he bought it with G.M.'s money, had the company put it through a series of tests that proved useful in preparing the defense. Nunez still has the Corvair. "I drive...