Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another case of the quarter-finals of the Ames Competition will be tried this evening in the court-room of Langdell Hall at 8 o'clock. The plaintiff will be represented by the Jeremiah Smith Club, and the defendant by the Pow-Wow Club. Professor Calvert Magruder will sit as Chief Justice...
Bonner & Griffith lost their jobs when the Power Commission was reorganized in 1930. They engaged the Washington law firm headed by Frank J. Hogan. high-priced defenders of Bribee Albert B. Fall and Oilman Edward L. Doheny. They sued 14 Hearstpapers for sums ranging for each plaintiff from $100,000 to more than $1,000,000 in Washington. By agreement the Boston American case was tried first, in U. S. District Court. Hearst's general counsel, white-crowned James A. Reed, onetime Senator from Missouri, attended the trial for a few days, was called home by the death...
...Morrie Ryskind, et al. He charged that their Pulitzer Prize-winning Of Thee I Sing was drawn from his U.S.A. With Music. Commented Judge Woolsey: "In this case, as is usual in plagiarism cases, obscurity is taking a long shot at success. Having failed to reach his mark, the plaintiff must be made to pay for the expense to which he has put the defendants. ... I am faced with page after page of alleged parallelisms of phraseology. Obviously, the plaintiff cannot claim a copyright on words in the dictionary, such as names of seasons...
...Myers v. The United States, 58 C. Cls. 199, the Court held (April 2, 1923) that the President alone had no power to remove the plaintiff but inasmuch as Myers had been guilty of delay (laches) in asserting his rights he was not entitled to recover. The case was then taken to the Supreme Court...
...grounds that the pardon had been fraudulently obtained. The Lowell Club, represented by J. J. Rosenberg 3L, and N. B. Tyre 3L, argued for the defendant. R. E. Kopp 3L, argued for the defendant R. E. Kopp 3L, and M. M. Schuitzer 3L, represented counsel for the plaintiff. In addition to Justice Maltble, the Honerable C. J. Dunn. Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and the Honorable J. M. Morton, Jr. '91, United States Circuit Judge attended...