Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burly Cinematenor Mario [The Great Caruso'] Lanza, a devil-may-care sort of swashbuckler with four playful children, found himself in a peck of trouble in California courts. Net of two separate damage suits against him: home-wrecking -in the literal, unromantic sense. His hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because...
...Peck suggested that hte jury system is one of the major factors in court delays and that in civil cases "it is quite time to question the value of the jury system and at least to see what effect it is having on the administration of justice...
...Peck spoke on "Crisis in the Courts," which he claimed have "lagged in the grip of old forms and old ways," What he lamented particularly was "the cost and loss in economic and human terms of a court system which is excessively expensive and inordinately slow...
Johnson joined David W. Peck, presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, in addressing over 1,000 alumni from five of the University's Graduate Schools at luncheon in the Harkness Quadrangle Wednesday...
...Peck suggested that the jury system is one of the major factors in court delays and that in civil cases "it is quite time to question the value of the jury system and at least to see what effect it is having on the administration of justice...