Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning of the year the sections study the conduct of a trial--first from the plaintiff's side and then from the defendant's. Finally the first year men see a mock trial of the case before a jury...
...Jean Starr, since his Mexican divorce from her didn't really count. (Presumably, marriage and divorce with Poetess Virginia Moore, 46, wife No. 2, was legal.) Untermeyer readily admitted that he had discussed the "present suit" with Miss Starr. "I told her [Jean] that the plaintiff [Esther] thought there were a few drops in the orange [Louis] left to squeeze, and that she [Esther] wanted more money." Jean Starr, 64, testified that Untermeyer had told her: "[Esther] has threatened to bring the temple down about my ears the way Delilah did with Samson." As well as any man could...
Search & Seizure. California law aggravates the rash of malpractice suits: one trick provision compels the defendant doctor to serve as an expert witness for the plaintiff. The epidemic in Los Angeles is especially severe because Southern California is full of elderly hypochondriacs. Says Dr. Regan; "We have so many people in the fringe group here-the lunatic fringe, that is." Examples: one woman, accusing her surgeon of having left needles in her arm, stuck 26 sewing needles into herself; another woman, claiming that she had been examined without her consent, sued under the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unlawful search & seizure...
...David C. Poskanzer '50 said the 24 accusations published in an open letter to the Class of 1950 didn't warrant consideration since the plaintiff didn't reveal his identity. "Consider the man a coward, the points irrelevant . . . the Council need not reply at all,' Poskanzer said...