Word: suits
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...During a medical-malpractice suit in a Kentucky federal district court last year, Judge Henry Brooks refused to seat any women on the jury. His motive was pure chivalry. The plaintiff, a state convict named Ernest Abbott, was suing two prison doctors for failing to detect a cancer in its early stages. At the time, he suffered from advanced cancer of the penis and groin, and Judge Brooks wanted to spare women the details of medical testimony that might be "distasteful." Abbott lost his suit, and later died. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has ruled that...
Moral Sense. As a Negro convict in Mississippi, Arthur could look forward to little more than sympathy, and not much of that. But the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, composed mostly of young attorneys from the North, brought a damage suit in the U.S. District Court in Greenwood. They did not bother to serve a summons on Williams, who by then was out of prison and living in Chicago. Instead, they served ten white officials, including Leflore County Sheriff John Arterbury, superintendent of the prison farm at the time of the shooting...
Costly Misjudgment. The union's members are also challenging their leaders. Two weeks ago, 78 miners and miners' widows filed suit against the U.M.W. in federal court, asking for $75 million in damages. They charged the U.M.W. with conspiring with its welfare fund, with the union-owned National Bank of Washington and with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association to defraud them of their pensions through fiscal mismanagement and the manipulation of union funds for private gain...
Like Yablonski's challenge, the miners' suit demonstrates the depth of the coal miners' discontent with a union that has lost touch with its members. "Tony Boyle and his associates thought they owned the union," said Yablonski after his nomination victory last week. "Now at long last he knows he misjudged the men who belong to this union." Although election odds as of now favor Boyle, dissatisfaction among rank-and-file miners is still growing. The price of Boyle's misjudgment could...
Last week Kaunda made it clear that Zambian ambitions have grown. Clad in his usual khaki bush suit, he told 400 cheering members of the ruling United National Independence Party that he was "asking" the owners of the mines to give 51% of their shares to the state. "I do not think," he said, "that the nation can achieve economic independence without acquiring full control of the existing mines...