Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McGaw filed suit in federal court, asking for $1,800,000 from the Birch Society; in state court, he demanded the same sum from Webster. Once the Birch Society won a court order protecting the secrecy of its membership lists, McGaw was unable to prove that Webster was the society's legal agent, and he was forced to withdraw his federal suit. When that happened, the Birch Society, which had filed a countersuit against McGaw, also called off its lawyers. Had the Birch Society gone into court as a plaintiff, it would have faced the difficult task of proving...
...upheld last month by the District of Columbia Circuit Court. Now he is almost positive that the North Carolina decision will be followed by the D.C. Circuit Court which has agreed to reconsider his appeal. If that happens, Hutt predicts, the eight other U.S. circuit courts will follow suit...
...commitments in Milwaukee. But Milwaukee had other ideas. Last August, Milwaukee County joined the State of Wisconsin in charging the Braves and the other nine teams in the National League with illegally and monopolistically conspiring to deprive Milwaukee of its major-league franchise. The state also filed a separate suit in federal court, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court should override its previous decisions exempting big-league ball from the Sherman Antitrust...
...federal suit has not yet been ordered to trial, but the Wisconsin state court was moving more quickly. So in a countermove, Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, filed a suit of its own in Georgia superior court, requesting that the Braves be enjoined to fulfill their contracts in Atlanta. In December, the Georgia court issued a temporary injunction, and since the league has told the Braves to obey, there is little doubt that the injunction will become permanent next week when a final order...
...process, General Foods showered $17.5 million in new accounts on two of the hottest agencies in the business: 13th-ranking Doyle Dane Bernbach, whose sophisticated soft sell for Volkswagen and inverted hard sell for Avis has spawned a school of imitators, and 18th-place Grey, whose strong suit is marketing. Since last September Doyle Dane has received new billings worth $35 million from U.S. Rubber, Mobil Oil, Gillette, Ocean Spray, Bankers Trust-and only last week another $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 from Lever Bros. For the chief casualty, Foote, Cone & Belding, the switch meant the loss...