Word: sues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small cottage that belonged to his son, Jackson now pinned his fragile hopes to a $220,000 damage suit against Sears. But he soon learned that the suit would not hold up, because in order to sell the land, his lawyers had signed away his right to sue in connection with any of the previous land transactions. Now his situation was becoming desperate. Nearing 60, he was unable to find regular employment. Because he owned land (the desert which no one would buy), he was ineligible for welfare. He didn't qualify for unemployment insurance because he had been...
...fugitives dash from town to town, sleeping in the open air and profitably peddling conned goods between solid slapstick sequences and comic car chases. Finally, there is a farmer's daughter (Sue Lyon). The drifter steals her car-and falls in love with her. Too late, he decides to go straight. Before he can turn himself in to the MP's, the sheriff catches up with the two tricksters and claps them into jail. There Sarrazin realizes that a cage will kill the old buzzard, and risks his life and love in an attempt to spring the Flim...
Sovereign Immunity. Insurance companies confronted with Detroit claims can try to sue the city, but in the absence of statutes, nothing in common law makes a city, county or state liable for riot damages unless it has somehow acted negligently. Even then, many governmental bodies are protected by sovereign immunity, a musty theory that public monies can be used only for the general public, not to compensate individuals, such as riot victims. But legal scholars contend that sovereign immunity is unjust, illogical, and riddled with exceptions. Moreover, courts have gradually eroded or discarded the doctrine in several states. Once sovereign...
...their police don't use established professional techniques of riot control and suppression. "There is a substantial need to indemnify victims of mob disorders," he comments. "Sovereign immunity is playing its finale. Fundamental principles of common law warrant the conclusion that the injured has a right to sue a municipal corporation for damages committed by a mob when the local unit of government acts heedlessly in the face of knowledge of the potential dangers to the victim...
...provides Congress with stronger grounds for expelling him but a much weaker basis for excluding him. Even the moderate alternative proposed by the House investigating committee, which included fining Powell, could be contested as an unconstitutional bill of attainder. Congress's soundest action against Powell would have been to sue him in court...