Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimea at the time. But the book does not specifically spell out a "sexual atmosphere" in the conspiracy, and under New York privacy law, public media become liable for damages whenever they fictionalize historic facts about living persons without their written consent. The burden, though, is on the plaintiff, and the prince must prove that CBS went so far beyond the facts that it "tended to outrage public opinion or decency." Since CBS insists that its drama was mainly based on Youssoupoff's own books, the Manhattan jury must now decide whether the TV film strayed too far from...
...suggestion has just been declared to be law in a notable ruling of U.S. District Judge James F. Gordon in a $2,000,000 libel suit against two Louisville newspapers and a radio station. The plaintiff: former Army Major General Edwin F. Walker. The defendants, charged Walker, defamed him by publishing and broadcasting wire-service reports suggesting that he incited student race rioters at the University of Mississippi...
After a non-suit, failure of the plaintiff to come to court, a case automatically goes to judgment, which means that the plaintiffs are assessed for the small costs incurred by the incompleted trial. This may well be easier said than done in the case of the missing pair, an attorney for Hayes-Bickford commented last night...
...huge verdicts. During the trial, the lawyer keeps repeating the "price," sometimes leaves it on a blackboard as a means of subliminal advertising. To woo jurors, the lawyer may suddenly decrease the price to show "fairness." In an equally dramatic maneuver, he may increase it to suggest that the plaintiff underestimated. Then, as Cleveland's Jury Verdict Research Inc. puts it: "The higher the amount of suit, the higher the point at which the jury begins its deliberations...
...argues that the ad damnum clause should be banished-or at least kept from jurors' ears. Technically, it merely determines which court has jurisdiction over the amount in controversy. (Most kinds of federal court cases, for example, must involve more than $10,000.) In Pennsylvania and Florida, the plaintiff may now plead only that he demands more or less than the jurisdictional amount of a particular court. New Jersey has eliminated the ad damnum clause. British courts long ago barred lawyers from reading the clause to juries, thus focusing full attention on the trial evidence...