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...District Court, where he sued Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to correct Ashe's record, Murphy pointed to a 1962 law that gives district courts jurisdiction for the first time over cases in which a U.S. official has been asked "to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff...
...panted: "I'm taking vitamin pills." Now, two years later, Joan Martin Douglas, 25, can't keep up any longer. Filing suit for divorce from U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 67, Joan charged the old outdoorsman with "cruel treatment and personal indignities which have rendered plaintiff's life burdensome." The justice, facing his third divorce, offered no dissenting opinion...
...PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT was flawlessly equipped to produce "gory, grisly, money-making pictures" showing the plaintiff at every stage of his ordeal-all to bolster the Colonel's final, anguished argument to the jury: "This poor, helpless man has waited much too long for his money...
...Crimea at the time. But the book does not specifically spell out a "sexual atmosphere" in the conspiracy, and under New York privacy law, public media become liable for damages whenever they fictionalize historic facts about living persons without their written consent. The burden, though, is on the plaintiff, and the prince must prove that CBS went so far beyond the facts that it "tended to outrage public opinion or decency." Since CBS insists that its drama was mainly based on Youssoupoff's own books, the Manhattan jury must now decide whether the TV film strayed too far from...
...suggestion has just been declared to be law in a notable ruling of U.S. District Judge James F. Gordon in a $2,000,000 libel suit against two Louisville newspapers and a radio station. The plaintiff: former Army Major General Edwin F. Walker. The defendants, charged Walker, defamed him by publishing and broadcasting wire-service reports suggesting that he incited student race rioters at the University of Mississippi...