Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shut off the flow from the Gold Pool. Prime Minister Harold Wilson hurried to Buckingham Palace for a midnight meeting with Queen Elizabeth, who declared a bank holiday in foreign-exchange trading. That shut off the Gold Pool's dealing, and money markets from Singapore to Lusaka followed suit. The Paris market alone stayed open...
...York for a month; the whole program will continue for at least two months in an effort to reduce the waiting period for civil cases, which is now 18 months from the time the case is ready for trial and an average of 39 months from the time the suit is filed...
Alienation of affection suits are relatively rare. What few there are are almost invariably brought by one marriage partner against the other's lover, and they are hard to win. Thus, the chances of Melvin Bradesku, a Cleveland electrician, seemed slim when he decided to file such a suit last year. Or even slimmer, considering the defendant. His wife, he said, had been stolen away from him by a church. The whole thing continued to appear exceptionally ludicrous, in fact, right up until last week when an Akron jury ordered various representatives of the church...
Warmer Higher? The defense argued that the marriage had been on and off the rocks anyway. She testified that he had beaten her the year after they were married; she had filed for divorce in 1966, and then withdrew. Currently, another divorce suit is pending. More important, said the defense, was the fact that "the federal and state constitutions guarantee to all religious groups the right to hold and preach doctrines." If that guarantee is meaningful, then surely a church cannot be liable for the consequences of stating a specific belief...
...going to shake hands with you," said the Milton Mother in the purply-red suit. "You've turned our community upside down. I'm not going to shake hands with you." Edward J. McLaughlin, the general counsel for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, was embarrassed. An Irish blush washed his face, lapping the edges of his gray temples...