Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carrying on shamelessly with a woman in his office. Last week the Communist court decided in favor of the husband. As for the other woman in the case, said the court, that was easily explained: "Because of the already existing differences in the ideological level of the parties, the plaintiff entered into illicit relations with his colleague in order to further his spiritual development." The judge warned Frau Jahnke: "Marriage does not consist only in the physical relationship bound in a man's sitting in soft slippers before the fireplace but [also in] political readiness...
Technically, the Commissioner of Public Safety has no legal power to give such "advice." First, any libel action would be civil suit and therefore, unless the state were a plaintiff, outside its jurisdiction. Secondly, if the state did file a bill of equity, the action would have to come through the office of the Attorney General...
...Roberts, a Washington lawyer who fed a steady stream of "news" to reporters; the newsmen apparently hardly paused to ask whether Mow and Hsiang were really the victims and opponents of corruption they claimed to be. Over Roberts' objections the district court insisted that it had jurisdiction, ordered plaintiff and defendant to appear to tell what he knew about the money...
...Marshall Club will represent the plaintiff--the Russian Steamship Company, which is claiming insurance proceeds of a Latvian ship which was sunk by the Germans during the war. Opposing them, the J. Smith Club will support the defendant--the United States Attorney General...
...secretary, who was charged with kiting $4,284 worth of checks and convicted of second-degree grand larceny (TIME, Dec. 24), came into court to hear her sentence: indefinite probation, because of her age and health, instead of a possible six-year prison term. It was fair enough, said Plaintiff Tallulah: "I did my duty as a citizen, the jury did its duty, and now I'm sure the judge has done his. You get so mad you could spit, as they say-you'd like to kill someone-but when it comes right down...