Word: sues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with time winding down, Stone picked up where York had left off, firing two scores, one on a magnificent scoop shot off a Howard crossing pass. Back Sue McCune also added a score with an unassisted shot that beat goalie Randyl to the left side...
...only attempt at such critical evaluation comes in the middle of the book, when he describes a speech by Ralph Nader. Nader asks whose law is being taught here, who benefits from the current legal system. "How many sharecroppers," Nader asks his Law School audience, "do you think sue Minute Maid?" For a few hours, Turow says, he was convinced that Nader was right; he could use his education for a political purpose, to help the downtrodden rather than to do the down trodding. But as he drove home, he returned to his previous stand: his enemy was the pressure...
...general proposition" by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1821. In recent terms, sovereign immunity has meant that some victims of negligent state hospital officials or wild-shooting Guardsmen and state police (as at Kent State and Jackson State universities in 1970) have no recourse except to sue the individual government employees at fault. Over the past 40 years, 38 states and the Federal Government have abolished or modified the doctrine, allowing citizens to haul various governments into court as they would a private party. State courts and legislatures have largely abolished sovereign immunity for municipalities, too. But Massachusetts has retained...
Wagner, it seems, disliked smoking cigarettes and threatened to sue the manufacturer of Sweet Caporal cigarettes, when it used his picture on one of their premium cards. Since only a few were printed before the company suspended production of his card, the estimated two dozen that are known to exist have become coveted investments. If they are in good condition they may sell for $4,000 apiece...
...Died. Sue Kaufman, 50, journalist and author (Diary of a Mad Housewife Falling Bodies); in Manhattan. Diary, a novel that explored the vulnerabilities and frustrations of a sophisticated young couple trying to make it in Manhattan, was later a successful movie...