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...fact, the hospital had a rather strong case. For, like all negligence plaintiffs, the Deutsches had the difficult job of proving four elusive claims: 1) that the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty of reasonable care; 2) that the defendant failed to perform that duty in the manner of "a reasonably prudent person" who would have foreseen and avoided the consequences; 3) that the defendant's negligence actually as well as legally caused the plaintiff's injury; 4) that the plaintiff suffered real loss or "damage" to be compensated by the defendant...
Common law imposes on every person a duty to exercise "ordinary care" for his or her own safety. Such care is defined as what "the great mass of mankind" would ordinarily exercise in the same or similar circumstances. And in most states, juries are normally instructed that a plaintiff who fails to take such precautions may not collect; the plaintiff's negligence means the defendant gets off scot-free, which seems to be just what happened in Milwaukee. Once the jury received its instructions, it absolved Budner and withheld all damages for Mrs. Busick...
...kiss was fully on the mouth," admitted the plaintiff, Mary Nofsinger, 25. "And it endured up to the time of the accident?" asked her ex-boyfriend's lawyer. A: "Yes." Q: "This wasn't the first time you kissed, was it?" A: "No." But it was the last time with Airman Gary C. Hodges. As she told it, Mary had amiably gone along for a ride when, without warning, he kissed her. Smack! -the car wound up in a canal. Mary sued him for her assorted injuries, and the jury awarded her $7,500. Dismayed, Hodges took...
...plaintiff in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles was Director George Stevens; the defendant, the National Broadcasting Co. The charge: "Rape of a creative effort." That's what Stevens had called it, anyhow. The "effort" was his memorable 1951 six-Oscar picture, A Place in the Sun. NBC bought the TV rights to the film from Paramount for $300,000, put it on nationwide TV last March, and Stevens protested that it was mutilated by the insertion of no fewer than 42 commercials...
...Third District Court of Appeals reversed the decision. Wrote Judge Fred R. Pierce: "Our reversal is upon the grounds that plaintiff's widely advertised name and well-known senior use of the name had given it a 'secondary' meaning and that junior use of even a family name will be enjoined when public deception inevitably results...