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...Supreme Court had acted with unaccustomed speed to resolve the issue before the July 19 deadline for the return of Iranian assets, as stipulated by the U.S.-Iran agreement. The plaintiff in the case, Dames & Moore, a California engineering firm, was one of some 450 companies seeking a total of $4 billion in breach-of-contract suits against Iran. Contesting the President's authority to make the hostage deal without the consent of Congress, Dames & Moore argued that its provisions represented an unconstitutional "taking" of their property without "just compensation," as required by the Fifth Amendment...
...walks into the courtroom, he sports snakeskin cowboy boots, a knee-length beaver coat and a ten-gallon Stetson. His outside interests have included selling bull semen. During one trial, he kept an intriguing box on the table in front of him. The contents: the embalmed leg his plaintiff had lost in the accident at issue. He won some $300,000 in damages...
Richard Weckstein was one of several witnesses called at the Middlesex Superior Court trial to determine the monetary value of the damage to the plaintiff. Her attorney says the doctors' improper treatment of a cancerous lump reduced her expected lifetime earnings...
...Immunity. The legal stakes for Nixon are highest in Kissinger vs. Halperin, a case that is expected to be argued before the Supreme Court in December. Plaintiff Morton Halperin, once a senior staff member at the National Security Council, has sued high Nixon Administration officials, and Nixon himself, for $1.26 million, claiming they violated his right to privacy by tapping his phone in search of news leaks. Nixon's defense: a President must be immune from lawsuits involving his official acts...
...legal observers seem prepared to bet next Sunday's collection plate that the court will tamper with the church's tax status. But Lawrence Lader, president of the plaintiff Abortion Rights Mobilization, suggests that the suit could have a restraining effect anyway. As Lader puts it, "I hope this frightens people enough to make them obey the law." More sobering than the suit, perhaps, were the results at the ballot box: Frank, Shannon and McGovern all won their primaries...