Word: plaintiffs
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Toomey, the plaintiff in yesterday's hearing, said he objected to the change of the dormitories to the fourth precinct because he felt it was done "for purely political reasons...
...treated for a leg fracture. Though the break eventually knitted, the limb was slightly shorter than before. Briefed by the doctors on the difference age makes in the brittleness and healing of bone, Lincoln dramatically demonstrated the point in court with broken chicken bones. Then Lincoln turned to the plaintiff and said, "Mr. Fleming, instead of bringing suit against these surgeons, you should go on your knees and thank God and them that you have your leg. Most other practitioners would have insisted upon amputation." The impressed jury decided the case for the doctors and assessed the plaintiff court costs...
...dirty campaigns and political scandal. The state auditor recently resigned after pleading guilty to a charge of misconduct in office--he had taken $50 in extra travel expenses. The Republican nominee for Attorney General was just cleared of a charge of interfering with a civil suit by telling the plaintiff that she "didn't have a case" against the daughter of his longtime personal secretary. The cleared attorney won in the primaries despite another charge hanging over his head: he has been accused of failing to forward "at least a couple of hundred dollars" in child support to a client...
Switzerland's passion-charged baby-food libel trial (TIME, Feb. 16) has ended in something of a draw. The plaintiff: the multinational Nestle Alimentana, among whose myriad food products are powdered infant formulas marketed in less developed countries. The defendants: members of the Bern-based Third World Working Group. The group had distributed a German-language version of a British pamphlet that charged baby-food makers with causing the deaths of Third World babies by hard-selling their formulas to illiterate mothers incapable of preparing them properly. The Swiss pamphlet was entitled Nestlé Kills Babies. Two years...
...Chief Justice Earl Warren, speaking for a unanimous Supreme Court, found for the plaintiff in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Brown was Linda, a cheerful, slightly plump, eleven-year-old Kansas schoolgirl who happened to be black. Halfway through his opinion, the Chief Justice asked a long, deceptively innocent question: "Does segregation of children in public schools, solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may be equal, deprive the children of the mi nority group of equal education opportunities? " His brief answer: "We believe that...