Word: suede
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes litigants tend to ramble or drag in irrelevancies, like the mover who, although being sued for damaging some furniture, tried to discredit his opponent by reporting that she once accused him of stealing her underwear. Occasionally, however, somebody shows a gift for pointed lawyerly sarcasm. One defendant had smashed...
In 1977, however, the company decided that it could not pay out that much in profit sharing and began buying back the managers' interests. Within six months, 50% of the managers had quit. And then the lawsuits began. Former managers claimed that the Fraction of the Action was actually...
In November 1980, residents of the Denver suburb of Northglenn began noticing the pungent smell of gasoline throughout their homes. Explosions began lifting 200-lb. manhole covers off the ground. An investigation showed that the gas had leaked from the underground tanks of a nearby Chevron service station and found...
The justices were divided 4 to 4 in the case (William Rehnquist, who was an assistant attorney general at the time of the taps, recused himself). The decision therefore does not set any legal precedent, but it allows a lower court ruling in Halperin's favor to stand. The...
Cryonics Interment Inc. of Los Angeles, Calif., was one of several firms spawned by the 1960s vogue for freezing human bodies until the cures for various diseases were found, at which time the bodies would be thawed and presumably revived. When Cryonics Interment went broke after five years, however, the...