Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plaintiff, a 22-year-old Los Angeles woman, alleged that a Yale music instructor "repeatedly made sexual advances, including coerced sexual intercourse, that were not wanted and were protested" from 1973 until her graduation this spring. As a result, she claimed she "found it impossible to continue playing the flute and abandoned her study of the instrument, thus aborting her desired professional career." Another plaintiff, a 19-year-old junior, alleged she was subjected to repeated "sexual harassment" this spring every time she visited an English professor's office to discuss term papers. Anne Simon, a Yale Law School...
...whether baseball depends on the reserve clause for its existence, and even if baseball players receive substantial wages, should the courts condone their exploitation and the infringement of their right to offer their services on the open market? Organized baseball, frightened by the prospect of legal defeat, offered the plaintiff $60,000 to settle out of court. Gardella dropped the charges, and the reserve rules remained unaltered...
Spokesmen for the plaintiff Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes, their lawyers, and representatives of the Interior and Justice departments attended the largely ceremonial session...
...decision was an elaboration of a ruling last June, Washington v. Davis, in which the court set narrower restrictions in judging charges of racial discrimination under the Constitution. That case involved two black plaintiffs who had charged that a test given to police recruits in Washington, D.C., was discriminatory because a disproportionate number of blacks flunked. The court declared then that a plaintiff in such a case would have to show "a racially discriminatory purpose" and not simply racially unbalanced results...
...have no dispute with the plaintiffs legal right to bring suit; however, our citizens, plaintiff and defendant alike, are suffering unjustified financial hardships and mental anguish. It is unconscionable for individual citizens to be forced to assume the liabilities for acts of our state and federal governments 200 years ago. No present resident of Mashpee was here then to violate anyone's rights. If, in fact, there was any wrong committed, it is those governmental bodies that must step forth now and assume their responsibilities...