Word: sues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...succeeded. In December 1976 the state supreme court decided that Michelle did indeed have the right to sue. Noting "radically" changed social mores "in regard to cohabitation," it ruled that the law should not "impose a standard based on alleged moral considerations that have apparently been so widely abandoned by so many." As long as sex was not the basis of the agreement, said the court, unmarried couples could expressly agree to share their property or even imply such an agreement by their conduct toward each other...
...million, for the two years they lived together but settled last year for attorneys' fees, a house and some cash. Mitchelson, who has been called "the paladin of paramours," has been signed up by the ex-girlfriends of Rock Star Alice Cooper and Actor Nick Nolle to sue their former roommates for $3.5 million plus $90,000 annually and for $5 million, respectively...
Bates closed the gap somewhat with a victory in the 440-yd. dash and first and second in the high jump. Bates' Sue MacDougall set a track record in the high jump with a 5-ft. 5-in. leap. But Harvard came right back as Sue Harper took the 60-yd. hurdles in 9.5 seconds. Harper was the only Crimson participant in this event...
Bailey's a damn good lawyer, but he did a lousy job...just execrable...It's pretty hard to sue a lawyer for malpractice, for an error in judgement...He made the worst mistake in the world when he got into a spitting contest with his client; a lawyer never can win that. There are some things people won't forgive you for saying about your former client. But he's one of the best in the country...
...held out for a better deal on Taiwan. Said Hatch: "All he had to do was stand fast. Mainland China needs this relationship more than the U.S. does." Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater accused Carter of having committed "one of the most cowardly" presidential acts in history and threatened to sue him in court on the questionable ground that a President cannot cancel a treaty without the Senate's approval. Liberal Republican Jacob Javits of New York complained that Carter had not sought the advice of Congress before making his decision?especially since the House and Senate passed a resolution this...