Word: sues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...willful injury." Not any more, said the influential California Supreme Court last month. Reversing a lower court damage-suit decision, it found such categorization of victims obsolete. Henceforth, even a gate crasher who trips over a royal palm stump and fractures his drinking arm will be able to sue with equal protection...
...smell of rendered chicken heads, feet, feathers and entrails. Southerly breezes wafted the odor across the state line to the town of Selbyville, Del. After Maryland's efforts to assert control failed, Selbyville citizens began a movement that eventually persuaded the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to sue Bishop under the 1967 Clean Air Act. The smell of the processing plant, they complained, "deprives the people of life's normal pleasures." Urging that the suit be dismissed, Bishop contended that this was local activity and not a matter for federal control. The U.S. District Court of Maryland...
...least part of Israel's heightened anger seemed due to the continuing detention in Algiers of an El Al Boeing airliner, seven crewmen and five Israeli passengers, the victims of a commando hijacking last month. Last week, in a novel legal gambit, Iraq announced that it would sue in Algeria to have the Boeing impounded pending release of an Iraqi MIG-21 that a defecting pilot had flown to Israel last year. But international pressure was building up for release of the El Al plane and the detained Israelis. Commercial pilots spoke of boycotting Algerian airports. Israel enlisted...
...litigation. It is also hoped that the new system will save money for the companies. In seven counties around Chicago, they will immediately offer an injured accident victim up to $5,000 for medical expenses. If the victim, who must be a resident of the area, agrees not to sue for more, the participating companies will also provide up to another $7,500 in quick cash to cover lost wages, disfigurement, inconvenience, suffering and permanent disability. Alternatively, an injured person can reject the offer and press his claim in the traditional...
...poor. No such metamorphosis in the welfare system could occur without long, acrimonious debate. To the end, S.C.L.C. leaders refused to demand anything the Government could give under present circumstances. Instead, they snapped at any outstretched Administration hand. By week's end, they had tried to sue the Agriculture Department...