Word: suede
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To Save a Life. The victim's parents sued the university, the psychologist and two hospital psychiatrists for $200,000 for failing to warn them or her about Poddar's threat. Alameda County Superior Court found no grounds for the suit, but the state supreme court's...
The department also is being sued by black police officers who claim the city has discriminated against them by refusing to promote them. Pisani declined to comment on the charge because the matter now is under litigation in Federal Court.
- In July 1972, a camp sergeant in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman ordered Inmate William Hardin Bogard to take a sewing machine away from James B. ("Slick") Davis, a fellow inmate. Davis, who was allowed to work in the prison slaughterhouse even though he had been diagnosed a paranoid...
Mutual of Omaha, the nation's largest seller of individual and family health-insurance policies, calls itself in its advertising 'The People You Can Count On." In Pomona, Calif., a jury last month chastized Mutual for not living up to that billing by awarding Policyholder Michael Egan, 59...
In fact, Kidd and other Pentagon planners are finding that some of the contracts they do sign are all but worthless. Because inflation has wiped out their profits on fixed-price deals, some contractors are backing out of their commitments, even though they risk being sued for default. Says Admiral...