Word: plaintiff
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...went out of his way to commend that verdict. "The article was clearly defamatory and extremely so," he said. "The jury was warranted in concluding from the persistent and continuing attitude of the officers and agents of the defendant that there was a wanton or reckless indifference to the plaintiff's rights." But if Butts refused to accept the reduction in judgment, said Judge Morgan, the court had no choice except to grant the Post a new trial...
Government lawyers, well aware that juries are prone to be generous toward an injured plaintiff, figured that the FAA might be held partially responsible anyway, whatever the CAB said. Last spring they agreed to pay 24% of all damages that were awarded. But FAA Chief Najeeb Halaby protested. After all, he argued, his agency had been exonerated...
...Every trial lawyer knows that jurors often start out with prejudices against the defendant or plaintiff. By using his rights to challenge prospective jurors, a lawyer can try to obtain a jury with as little prejudice as possible against his client. To help lawyers assess prospective jurors, a research team working under the auspices of New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University persuaded some 500 persons of varied backgrounds to take an elaborate test designed to reveal prejudices that might affect their judgment as jurors. The test was set up to detect both "overt" and "covert" prejudices. The findings, released...
...McCollum, who is president of the American Humanist Association, spoke at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard branch of that organization she is the well-known plaintiff in a 1943 Supreme Court case (McCollum vs. Board of Education) in which the Court ruled that classes in religion could not be taught on public school grounds. The decision is important to the first application of a 1947 Court opinion that the First Amendment's guarantee that "Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" was made applicable to state legislation by the Fourteenth...
Emphatically no. said the Justice Department last week in a significant federal suit involving the Government for the first time as original plaintiff in a school desegregation case. The target: Virginia's Prince George County,* site of Fort Lee, which houses the Army Quartermaster School. While getting hefty impact aid, Prince George last year assigned 117 of Fort Lee's Negro children to Negro schools. The Justice Department goal is not to cut off the aid, but to force an end to segregation. Ultimate aim: the same for about 70 other impacted school districts throughout the South...