Word: sues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appealed the verdict, lost a second time. It could, if it would, have carried the case to the House of Lords, but the Princess was prepared to sue MGM in the U. S., start actions against every exhibitor daring to show the picture. This meant not only that MGM might be liable for damages to exhibitors who were forced to pay the Princess, but also that few theatres would want to risk showing a picture which cost $1,000,000 to make. Hence MGM proposed a settlement. For her promise to drop all further action in the matter, the Princess...
...friendly lawyer, a divorce specialist. He discovers Britain has three sets of divorce laws, one for England, one for Ireland, one for Scotland. Under English law their only recourse is for him to fake an act of adultery, then let his wife's lawyer get the evidence, sue him. (If both John and Mary commit adultery, English law would punish them by never giving either a divorce.) Gritting his teeth, John goes through with it, finding an agency where he can hire a professional corespondent, taking her to a Brighton hotel for a weekend. Everything goes according to legal...
...told me they would prevent trouble," said Miss MacMillan quietly, then parried cross examination as to the medical student, John Caldwell. He proposed to her, she said, but when she told him about Premier Brownlee he withdrew his offer of marriage, offered instead his advice on how to sue the Premier and recover damages. When she finally broke with him, according to Miss MacMillan, Premier Brownlee was "a love-torn, sex-crazed victim of passion...
...compressed his lips. "Gentlemen of the jury," said he, "I strongly disagree with your verdict and reserve decision." Under Canadian procedure this should permit Premier Brownlee to carry his defense to a superior court. Hotly, counsel for Miss MacMillan protested that her family are too poor to continue to sue the Premier...
...Supreme Court. One of the Supreme Court's last decisions before adjourning for the summer carried a disquieting implication. In an opinion written by Justice Brandeis that tribunal declared unconstitutional a section of the Economy Act of 1933 which would have denied veterans the right to sue the Government under their war risk insurance policies. The Court held that Congress has no right to repudiate the Government's contracts with its onetime soldiers. If the Court should hold that Congress has no right to repudiate its contract to pay its bondholders in gold dollars of the old standard...