Word: plaintiffs
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...deported. By consular agreement, word of an American's arrest is immediately passed to U.S. officials. The accused's right to counsel begins at the pretrial magistrate's hearing. In civil as well as criminal cases, the government pays the bill if a British defendant (or plaintiff) cannot afford a lawyer. Most British courts, though not all, offer the same aid to accused Americans. Convicted aliens are commonly sentenced to buy a one-way ticket home. So easy is Britain on errant Americans that arrested Britons have been known to claim U.S. citizenship...
...been no. Now, in many courts around the world, the answer would be a highly qualified yes. Writing in the Michigan Law Review, Dr. David A. Gordon, a South African lawyer, notes that the law in most Western nations is finally beginning to recognize the rights of the unborn plaintiff...
...unborn plaintiff has such recovery rights against outsiders, the next obvious question is its legal position to its mother. As yet, the issue has not been tested. But some lawyers feel that if a child can prove that its mother negligently exposed it to a defect-causing disease, there is no reason why the child cannot sue its own mother-and collect...
Also, an amendment to the act requires that, in order to prove discrimination by individual businesses, a plaintiff must first demonstrate a pattern of discrimination in the area. "Thus, if all restaurants in Cambridge but one serve Negroes," he said, "that restaurant would not be acting in violation of the Civil Rights...
...lengthy opinion, Superior Court Judge William Gallagher first seemed to duck the issue by ruling that the suit should have been filed in municipal court. But then he said that the plaintiff was wrong anyhow because the 14th Amendment forbids only state-enforced discrimination in public accommodations. While the state itself may not discriminate against Negroes, he said, the 14th Amendment entitles a U.S. citizen "to discriminate for any reason whatever in his private conduct subject to properly enacted statutory limitations...