Word: plaintiff
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During last week's oral arguments, Lawyer Nixon readily agreed that LIFE has a reputation for checking its facts carefully. In this case, though, he charged the magazine with "reckless disregard for the plaintiff's rights" and "fictionalization for the purpose of profit." Time Inc. Lawyer Harold Medina Jr. pointed out the many similarities between the Hill incident and the Hilliard play, and argued: "This is a nondefamatory article. We said the family were heroes." Just how the court resolves this conflict between privacy and free expression may have important constitutional consequences...
...Plaintiff Williams, San Francisco's famed, ferocious Lawyer Marvin E. Lewis grilled Covington...
...this was Greek to Mrs. Surowitz, but she readily agreed to act as plaintiff in a shareholder's suit alleging fraud. Since Rule 23 (b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires that "the complaint shall be verified by oath," she swore to her belief in the truth of its contents before a notary public. Skeptical, Hilton's lawyers forced Mrs. Surowitz to take the stand in a Chicago federal district court to prove her understanding of all the details in her 60-page complaint. Naturally, she flunked the quiz. Calling it "a sham," the judge dismissed...
...Need for Answers. Speaking for the Supreme Court in a 7-to-0 decision last week, Justice Hugo Black scorned the lower courts' apparent notion "that a woman like Mrs. Surowitz, who is uneducated generally and illiterate in economic matters, could never under any circumstances be a plaintiff in a derivative suit brought in the federal courts to protect her stock interests." Whatever its technicalities, said Black, Rule 23 (b) "was written to further, not defeat, the ends of justice." Added he: "It has now been practically three years since the complaint was filed...
Unhappily for the airline, France has yet to ratify that treaty. As a result, Plaintiff Rossow was able to rely on a 1924 French law that says: "The right of an aerial vehicle to fly over private property cannot be exercised in such conditions as to interfere with the rights of the proprietor." Those rights, said the plaintiff, were clearly violated since the jets created a 115-decibel din, a nerve-snapping 45 decibels above what scientists say humans can tolerate. To the airline's shock a court of appeals upheld Rossow, noting only that any lack of effort...