Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if A.I.D. is "adultery," the plaintiff husband in a divorce suit is still in trouble. If he consented, his wife may claim "condonation" (his tacit forgiveness), which usually bars divorce. If he did not consent, he may still be unable to prove that A.I.D. ever took place: he does not know the donor, his wife has a right to silence, and the doctor may not be allowed to testify if she objects. As a result, the husband faces the difficult job of proving that he actually was sterile nine months before the birth of his wife's child...
...unable to prove that Webster was the society's legal agent, and he was forced to withdraw his federal suit. When that happened, the Birch Society, which had filed a countersuit against McGaw, also called off its lawyers. Had the Birch Society gone into court as a plaintiff, it would have faced the difficult task of proving that it had suffered damages from McGaw's editorial. More important, it could have been forced to produce the same membership lists that it was so anxious to keep under wraps...
...District Court, where he sued Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to correct Ashe's record, Murphy pointed to a 1962 law that gives district courts jurisdiction for the first time over cases in which a U.S. official has been asked "to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff...
...panted: "I'm taking vitamin pills." Now, two years later, Joan Martin Douglas, 25, can't keep up any longer. Filing suit for divorce from U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 67, Joan charged the old outdoorsman with "cruel treatment and personal indignities which have rendered plaintiff's life burdensome." The justice, facing his third divorce, offered no dissenting opinion...
...PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT was flawlessly equipped to produce "gory, grisly, money-making pictures" showing the plaintiff at every stage of his ordeal-all to bolster the Colonel's final, anguished argument to the jury: "This poor, helpless man has waited much too long for his money...