Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bogging Down. Both Nixon and Humphrey are bedeviled by the third-party candidacy of George Wallace, who has read the polls every bit as carefully as they have but has gone considerably further in tailoring his campaign to suit the fears and angers of a disturbed country. Both men are apprehensive about what Wallace might do to them on election day. Yet neither has had the political courage to take on the pugnacious little Alabamian by condemning him for what he is?a demagogue who has touched a nerve with his "law and order" theme...
...both of whom had to take the premises as they found them, regardless of dangers. All the owner or tenant owed them, it went on, was to refrain "from wanton or willful injury." Not any more, said the influential California Supreme Court last month. Reversing a lower court damage-suit decision, it found such categorization of victims obsolete. Henceforth, even a gate crasher who trips over a royal palm stump and fractures his drinking arm will be able to sue with equal protection...
...sought to do everything-even keep him a prisoner-to protect him against harm from possible accomplices in the killing. At first, Stephens willingly moved into Shelby County jail, where he was free to come and go but was accompanied by a bodyguard. He was away too often to suit police. Claiming that his activities outside the jail jeopardized his own safety, the state invoked a Tennessee law that provides for confinement of material witnesses, and imprisoned Stephens in July. In setting bail of $10,000, the Memphis Criminal Court virtually assured that he would be safely tucked away until...
...Hogan, quit last month to become president of rival Fairchild Camera & Instrument, he took seven colleagues along with him. Besides suffering a prompt drop in the price of its stock, Motorola began worrying that the mass exodus would mean a loss of trade secrets. Last week it acted. Filing suit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, Motorola Inc. asked damages against Hogan, his associates and Fairchild, also sought to enjoin Fairchild from hiring away any more...
...Stature. G.M. could hardly be happy about losing a top man like Knudsen, just as Motorola was understandably distressed about losing Hogan. Yet, whatever the merits of Motorola's suit against Fairchild, the danger of executives carrying corporate secrets to a rival is generally not as great as it seems. Despite the secrecy fetish that Detroit makes about new models, almost everyone admits that automakers usually know all about one another's most guarded projects. It is often the same way in other industries. Says Michigan State's Jennings: "A secret is only a secret...