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...made itself so big, it must live in constant dread of the Justice Department's trustbusters. Since last summer, the Antitrust Division has assigned a special team of eight attorneys to keep watch on the giant automaker. The Government already has four antitrust cases against G.M. in pretrial stages: 1) a criminal indictment charging that the company has monopolized the diesel electric locomotive market by unfair use of its power as the railroads' largest freight customer; 2) a suit alleging that G.M. monopolizes 85% of city and intercity bus sales; 3) an effort to nullify...
...Five years later, the case finally came to trial. Nizer forced Pegler to admit that he had once written that "it was all right to create fiction about a real person, because if you do it several years after it happens, nobody will know the difference anyhow." During the pretrial examinations, he read Pegler passages from unnamed authors. "Communist line!" roared Pegler. Nizer revealed at the trial that the excerpts were vintage Pegler. After a twelve-hour deliberation, the jury finally awarded Reynolds a settlement...
...After the public accusation, Hiss filed suit for libel in Baltimore, asking $75,000 damages. In a pretrial hearing, Hiss's lawyers challenged Chambers to show proof of his relationship with Hiss, and Chambers produced the famous "pumpkin papers." They were yielded to the Department of Justice, which in turn called back the grand jury. The grand jury then indicted Hiss for perjury, the count on which he was convicted and sentenced at his second trial. A year later, the libel suit was dismissed for lack of prosecution...
...prosecution and police stated their case in the pretrial hearing, the key man was Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, 38. Jowly, confident Lonsdale arrived in London only a few months ago bearing a Canadian passport and birth certificate. As on two prior visits, he rented a small flat at a residential hotel called the White House, styling himself a company director in the hotel register. He had interests in a small London firm, Allo Security Products, makers of remote-control locking mechanisms still under preproduction testing...
...disputed internal-security decisions laid down by the Supreme Court in 1956-57, none stirred up more wrath than the Jencks case ruling. Its gist: a defendant in a federal criminal case had a legal right to examine pretrial statements of Government witnesses. Warned Justice Tom Clark in his dissent: the decision granted criminals a "Roman holiday for rummaging" in FBI files...