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Jonathan B. Marks '66, the current president of the Review, concurred, saying, "Law reviews ought to be able to focus on the kind of issues that public-interest lawyers are focusing...
Marks said that the Review should "move as much as possible towards finding what the law review equivalent of public-interest lawyering...
...another prominent milk drinker, Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, and several public-interest groups have filed suit in federal court to have the increase invalidated. Nader charges that in return for the higher price-support levels, the milkmen have been delivering more than farm-fresh dairy products to the Administration and that both groups have been milking the consumer. Between March and November 1971, Nader says, industry associations have channeled $322,500 into the Republican campaign coffers. The White House has refused comment, since the case is before the courts. But Nixon doubtless wishes Nader would switch from milk...
...lost. Counterploys. With that decision, and a legislative loosening of other ground rules, California became the class-action capital of the states. At about the same time, Congress broadened the rules under which federal courts could treat class actions, opening the way for the consumer movement, environmentalist groups and public-interest law firms to spread the procedure nationwide. Worried defendants have already devised at least two counterploys. They seek to stall the suit, hoping that the class representatives will die, lose interest or move away. Or they meet the representatives' individual claims in the hope that no one else...
SOCIAL DIMENSIONS FUND, founded by Ralph Quinter, 32-year-old president of the old-line Pennsylvania Mutual Fund, has not yet been approved by the SEC. Quinter has arranged for the Council on Economic Priorities, a New York-based public-interest research group, to provide information about which companies and industries behave best with regard to such "social criteria" as environmental protection, employee job training and product safety...