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...Operated on a man of 59 for cancer, but detected none. Seeing a severely diseased kidney, he removed this "in an unusual way." Gangrene set in, "the probable result of plaintiff's improper surgical procedure," and the patient died...
Insull said that his suit "marked the first attempt of us Insulls to strike back at a 25-year unorganized but consistent campaign to vilify us." The plaintiff cited three trials in the 1930's and stated that he and his father were "universally acquitted every time charges were aired in open court...
...ring set with three rose diamonds and the motto (O Prepare.' " His first client was a parson who had been served with a writ of slander. The case was thrown out when Coke spotted that the word messoinges, i.e., lies, had been translated as "messages." When the litigious plaintiff brought suit afresh, young Coke was tempted to ask for a demurrer, i.e., to plead that even if the plaintiff's arguments were correct, there was no legal cause of action. Then he routed the plaintiff in a straight legal battle. Out of this victory came the first...
...Power. The new bill would bypass the administrative agencies and state courts and give a civil rights plaintiff the right, generally denied him in the past by judicial ruling, to take his case directly to the federal courts. And in its most controversial provision it would empower...
...minds of some of the "ardent, inexperienced young men," sprawled casually around on the decaying furniture, the $500 seemed a trifle exorbitant, but, the plaintiff was of another mind, and a highly legalistic one. He had 32 pages of services rendered neatly itemized, and a few off-hand comments about his infirm grandmother, whose sleep had been disturbed...