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This was the presiding judge's description of the five-month trial that concluded last week in his Sacramento, Calif, courtroom. The plaintiff was Albert Gonzales, 32, a former grocery clerk, who charged that his doctor, Orthopedic Surgeon John Nork, 45, had performed a back operation that was not only unnecessary but has prevented successful treatment for a cancer that is slowly killing him. As a result of Nork's admission of guilt, Judge B. Abbott Goldberg awarded Gonzales a huge malpractice judgment. He ordered Mercy Hospital, where the operation was performed, and Nork to share in payments...
...Chief runs the meeting, and the Justices give their views in order of seniority. "All right," Burger might say, "the first case seems to be 72-118, Gray v. White. In the petition, the plaintiff claims an abridgment of his right to freedom of religion by prison authorities. I believe we settled this question three years ago in Black v. Blue. I would be inclined to deny." After concluding his reasons for denial, he would turn to William O. Douglas, the senior Justice, and ask: "Bill, what do you think?" So it goes, down the line. It may take...
That sort of hide-flaying flippancy has often diverted attention from Hobson's genuine accomplishments. In 1967 he was the plaintiff in one of the nation's most publicized school desegregation suits. Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. district court ruled that the local school administrator was guilty of discriminating against blacks in the allocation of school funds and supplies as well as in the assignment of pupils and teachers. The following year Hobson was elected to Washington's first popularly chosen school board, where he led the struggle to carry out Judge Wright...
James H. Matlack, assistant professor of English at UMass-Amherst and a plaintiff in the suit, said yesterday. "The challenge rests on the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law. Although the oath is mandatory for every state employee, there have been a lot of inconsistencies in who is actually required to sign...
...current book, Fiedler is the plaintiff in a case against Shakespeare. The Bard, it seems, was viciously prejudiced on the subject of women, Jews and blacks. As internal aliens to his mind-"strangers"-they aroused his fear and consequently his hate. But after making Shakespeare out to be a conscious bigot, Fiedler argues that Shakespeare, quite unconsciously, had delved into "stereotypes and myths, impulses and attitudes" that "still persist in the dark corners of our hearts, the dim periphery of our dreams." So Shakespeare is both guilty and not guilty, a peculiar ambivalence that unsettles the whole book...