Word: sues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice of the U.S., Earl Warren is responsible for the administration of the entire fed eral court system. It is a job of immense frustration. Some courts have been swamped by the growing crime rate, all of them must struggle to cope with the increasing number of Americans who sue to settle a dispute. Yet in the past five years, only 35 new district judgeships have been added to the existing 307 to deal with the greater work load. The result is anything but speedy trial-particularly in the large urban areas. "Insufferable backlogs are normal rather than the exception...
...says Miami Circuit Judge Thomas Lee Jr., "is like trying to take one blanket and stretch it over two beds." It is also one of the main legal skirmish lines in the battle of the sexes. "It's not fair to me or the two children," says Linda Sue Beasley, 24, an attractive Indianapolis, Ohio, divorcée who receives $30 a month. "Hell, I should know," says a Los Angeles stockbroker. "I've been through three divorces and didn't get one fair shake...
Frazer Lively, as Marie Jeanne, the doyenne of the kitchen, gives the appearance of power even if she never quite realizes it in practice. Amy Sue Allen, the pregnant maid, projects her pain well--so well, in fact, that her expressiveness sometimes drowns out comprehensibility...
...York Times Company announced yesterday afternoon that it will sue the Harvard Lampoon for $175,000 for "willful deceit, commercial libel and commercial defamation" in its March 7 Times parody...
...most often soak the poor. A Republican amendment even made loan sharking a federal crime worth a max imum 25-year prison term. The House demonstrated its greatest solicitude for consumers, however, in an amendment to guard the first $30 of any paycheck from garnishment actions, in which creditors sue employers for part of a debtor's salary. Garnishments were limited to 10% of anything over $30, and employers were barred from firing workers because of the first garnishment-a widespread practice...