Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holland gauging economic conditions for President Roosevelt when his $1,000,000 plagiarism suit against Playwright James Hagan and the Paramount interests was thrown out of a Federal Court in Manhattan. After alleging that Playwright Hagan's One Saturday Afternoon was cribbed out of his novel, The Avenger, Plaintiff Child had tried to withdraw his suit with an apology. Refusing to permit this. Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed the suit only after assessing costs & fees against Mr. Child and remarking: "It gave me a pain. The charges are absolutely unfounded...
...case is a very extraordinary one. The plaintiff was trained as a trained nurse and worked in hospitals. She has seen people die, even from such gruesome things as cancer. . . . Yet she comes under the influence of a cult that teaches that this is all a great delusion and those dying with cancer are out of tune with the infinite and with...
...adopts the teachings of a woman leader of a cult who is now dead and in her grave. She was no Messiah and no God, just a woman of bones, flesh and blood, and yet this plaintiff, who will die as you and I, with hundreds of thousands of others, has seen fit to put aside real science ... to adopt the belief that pain and illness are things of the imagination and not of reality...
...objections. Included were amendments to: 1) reduce the statute of limitation in civil suits from ten to three years; 2) permit a defendant officer, director or underwriter to show that factors other than errors or omissions in the registration statement caused loss; 3) require a plaintiff seeking damages for losses to prove that he relied on the errors or omissions (with certain qualifications); 4) relieve directors of liabilities if they had no reason to question reports of qualified experts; 5) limit an underwriter's liabilities to securities sold instead of the whole issue; 6) reduce the standard of care...
...literate opinion in the case of Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 29). Citing the case of National Circle, Daughters of Isabella v. National Order of Daughters of Isabella, Judge Woolsey ruled that the defendant's use of the House of David's name was unauthorized and unfair. But: "The plaintiff complains quite bitterly because the defendant's ball players are all required to wear beards like those of the plaintiff's players. "From time immemorial, however, beards have been in the public domain. In respect of matters within that domain all men have rights in common...