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...kiss was fully on the mouth," admitted the plaintiff, Mary Nofsinger, 25. "And it endured up to the time of the accident?" asked her ex-boyfriend's lawyer. A: "Yes." Q: "This wasn't the first time you kissed, was it?" A: "No." But it was the last time with Airman Gary C. Hodges. As she told it, Mary had amiably gone along for a ride when, without warning, he kissed her. Smack! -the car wound up in a canal. Mary sued him for her assorted injuries, and the jury awarded her $7,500. Dismayed, Hodges took...
...plaintiff in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles was Director George Stevens; the defendant, the National Broadcasting Co. The charge: "Rape of a creative effort." That's what Stevens had called it, anyhow. The "effort" was his memorable 1951 six-Oscar picture, A Place in the Sun. NBC bought the TV rights to the film from Paramount for $300,000, put it on nationwide TV last March, and Stevens protested that it was mutilated by the insertion of no fewer than 42 commercials...
...Third District Court of Appeals reversed the decision. Wrote Judge Fred R. Pierce: "Our reversal is upon the grounds that plaintiff's widely advertised name and well-known senior use of the name had given it a 'secondary' meaning and that junior use of even a family name will be enjoined when public deception inevitably results...
During last week's oral arguments, Lawyer Nixon readily agreed that LIFE has a reputation for checking its facts carefully. In this case, though, he charged the magazine with "reckless disregard for the plaintiff's rights" and "fictionalization for the purpose of profit." Time Inc. Lawyer Harold Medina Jr. pointed out the many similarities between the Hill incident and the Hilliard play, and argued: "This is a nondefamatory article. We said the family were heroes." Just how the court resolves this conflict between privacy and free expression may have important constitutional consequences...
...Plaintiff Williams, San Francisco's famed, ferocious Lawyer Marvin E. Lewis grilled Covington...