Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sullivan, who represents the school committee in its fight against Judge Arthur H. Garrity's desegregation order, said that since the three attorneys representing the plaintiff NAACP also have Harvard connections. Keppel and Willie should not serve on the panel...
...actual plaintiff in the case, popularly known as "the Jesus trial," was Jacques Isorni, 63, an ultraconservative lawyer, legal historian and author of a 1967 book called The True Trial of Jesus. In it he blamed Pilate for the Crucifixion. The defendant, accused of libel, was the Rev. Georges de Nantes, 50, also an ultraconservative, who in a review of the book last year called Isorni a "Christian renegade" and the "apparently benevolent defender of the Jews...
White claims in his federal suit that this passage shows that Inwagen "maliciously intended to prevent Plaintiff from exercising his right to express his free speech," and that he never used obsene or profane terms in his letters...
...Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes (Bobbs-Merrill; $8.95) is one of the more ingenious rummagings through the great detective's lodgings at 221 B Baker Street. Rosenberg is an amateur literary bloodhound who once made his living heading off plagiarism suits for a film company-by proving that both plaintiff and defendant had stolen from older sources. He now makes a most convincing case that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ex-eye doctor who created the world's most famous sleuth, was really "a compulsive self-revealing allegorist." Rosenberg unearths both hard and agreeably circumstantial evidence that Conan Doyle...
Severe Blow. When parties from different states are involved and when the sum in dispute exceeds $10,000, a federal court has jurisdiction. And federal class actions have long depended on at least one plaintiffs meeting the $10,000 requirement. But the court has now made clear that every plaintiff must meet that requirement. Thus most of Zahn's coplaintiffs, who had individually suffered less than $10,000 damages, were told that they could "not ride in on another's coattails." That does not necessarily mean Zahn gets nothing; he may still bring a federal suit with whichever...