Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another suit, filed last week by ten Cambridge taxpayers, also challenges the council action. "Aggrieved taxpayers have automatic standing in these matters," Walsh said. His foes, though, are not defenseless. City council candidate David Sullivan, who drafted the original ordinance, also drafted a 28 page brief outlining its constitutionality. Sullivan confesses that his defense is not ironclad, "I am confident, though, and I doubt very much if any court will grant an injunction against...
...Restic insists that Harvard will not ignore the pass, though running should be the team's stronger suit. With split-end Rich Horner around, the Crimson would be crazy not to pass. "Richie will be as fine a receiver as you'll see in the league," Restic said. "Anytime we get the chance to throw the ball we'll get it out to him. I think Burke can do that...
Helping spur this gold rush is Designer Ralph Lauren's hit line of Western wear. Loafers just do not go with a $400 leather-fringed suit. City folks are learning what cowpokes have known all along: boots not only look great but feel good as well. They are also a proud brand mark, explains Judi Buie, 33, owner of Manhattan's Texas at Serendipity 111 boot store, whose customers include Rock Stars Alice Cooper and Boz Scaggs and Actresses Diane Keaton and Mariel Hemingway. Adds Buie: "For Americans, cowboy boots say where we come from...
...decide whether IBM had monopolized various markets claimed in Memorex's $900 million antitrust suit, jurors needed a detailed understanding of things like "reverse engineering," "cross elasticity of supply" and "subordinated debentures." The trial lasted 96 days. The jury heard 87 witnesses and examined some 3,000 exhibits. After deliberating for 19 more days, it could not reach a unanimous verdict. Federal Judge Samuel Conti declared a mistrial. He then ruled in favor of IBM, though the jury had favored Memorex by 9 to 2. Suspecting that the jurors were baffled by the whole case, Judge Conti began asking...
...time or who earns more than jury duty pays-$30 a day plus some extras-will opt out. That leaves, says Stanford Law School Professor William Baxter, juries of "the old, the jobless and the poor." At the 14-month trial of SCM vs. Xerox, a $1.5 billion antitrust suit, the jurors' average education level was tenth grade...