Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles courtroom was smog-filled and torrid. Off went the judge's coat. Off went the lawyers' coats. On stayed the clothes of the shapely plaintiff, Actress June Havoc, 41, and for a change, those of a key witness, her stripping sister Gypsy Rose Lee, 45, demure in a blue polka-dot dress. Cool and calm, June and Gypsy waited for the hearing to begin on June's complaint that she had been bilked in a real estate deal. But the smog won out, and the court was recessed. "In this kind of weather," said Gypsy, surveying...
...that dreadful day." But the psalmists looked forward to it joyfully. The reason for the difference, says Lewis, is that "the Christian pictures the case to be tried as a criminal case with himself in the dock; the Jew pictures it as a civil case with himself as the plaintiff. The one hopes for acquittal, or rather for pardon; the other hopes for a resounding triumph with heavy damages...
...Burton, writing the Supreme Court majority opinion (joined by Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan). Even assuming that the Taft-Hartley Act permits the NLRB to assess unions for back pay in certain cases, that, said Burton, would not prevent a plaintiff from seeking full damages in state courts. To hold otherwise, he wrote, would "grant to unions a substantial immunity" from the consequences of illegal mass picketing or coercion...
...plaintiff, in a Los Angeles court, called for the dissolution of Lewislor Films, Inc., producer of NBC-TV's Loretta Young Show, charged company bosses with "dishonesty, mismanagement and unfairness." The plaintiff: Adman Tom Lewis, 55; codefendant: the company president, Cinemactress Loretta Young, Lewis' wife for almost 18 years. Said Lewis: "It has no personal implications." Said Actress Young: "No comment...
...Brautigam, the Herald's longtime Associate Editor John D. Pennekamp, 61, bragged from the witness stand about his paper's vigilance, turned to the judge and cautioned: "We are keeping a box score on you, your honor." The jury's score: $100,000 damages for Plaintiff Brautigam...