Word: sues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill itself was trifling: the Okonogan Indians of Washington sought legislative permission to sue the U. S. in the Court of Claims on a land dispute. Congress granted the permission, but President Coolidge withheld consent. The Indians were last week asking the Supreme Court to validate their permission by denying the President the power to kill a bill by pocketing it, except after a final adjournment of the Congress-that is, an adjournment on a March 4, after a second session...
...Attorney-General Pierce Butler Jr., son of Associate Justice Butler of the U.S. Supreme Court, who last week finished a thoroughgoing review of the Barnett case. Mr. Butler found: 1) the Interior Department had no power to give away Barnett's wealth; 2) the U. S. could sue to annul Barnett's marriage to Anna Laura Lowe; 3) suits to recover Barnett's wealth were justified; 4) nobody had been guilty of criminal conspiracy or fraud...
...raiders at the very time, it was alleged, that he was being entertained by a troup of jazzy show girls. The States reported that there were drinking, dancing and "petting," that the Governor had danced around with a drink in his hand. The States challenged the Governor to sue for libel. Mr. Danziger protested that his party had been "as clean as performances on any theatre stage in the city," but Governor Long said nothing, not even when Col. Ewing's Shreveport Times repeated the charges in the Governor's home town and made them ring through the state from...
...William A. Hickey, Bishop of the Diocese of Providence. Attorney Daignault and many another donor wanted strictly French-speaking schools. In the schools that Bishop Hickey built, English was spoken, though French was taught. Attorney Daignault and a few of his comrades were so vexed that they determined to sue Bishop Hickey for misuse of their good money...
Another note concerns the civil liability of members of unincorporated labor unions, and takes up the question as to whether a firm can sue individual strikers for damages committed in an unorganized strike. Several recent Massachusetts cases are cited in the note...