Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently couldn't make out the screams of "PUT IT ON! PUT IT ON!" but obliged the crowd when Eagleson leaned over and passed on the message. He removed his suit and replaced it with the sweater he wore so well, ending his career in proper fashion: Boston black and gold instead of Chicago black...
...daughter, and although Castro denies any close ties to Marley, the millionaire liquor dealer is still reported tc have the friendship of some of the most influential members of the state legislature. Marley is still so powerful, in fact, that he even had the temerity to file suit for $51 million against Don Bolles's widow, charging her with defamation of character for her lawsuit accusing Marley of ordering the Bolles killing; out of court, Marley succeeded in persuading Mrs. Bolles to drop her lawsuit in exchange for his doing the same...
Both are referring, with unconcealed dread and awe, to the lawyer's equivalent of the Serbonian bog in Milton's Paradise Lost, "where armies whole have sunk." Most lawyers call it simply the "Big Case": the massive, sprawling suit that involves huge stakes, provides employment for legions of attorneys and drones on for years. The quintessential Big Case is U.S. vs. International Business Machines Corp., an antitrust suit by the Government charging the company with monopolizing the computer industry. Before the parties went to trial, they deluged each other with 30 million pages of documents. The actual trial...
...sheer size of some cases. "How much can you narrow the issues when the question is, 'Did a two-decade course of conduct in an industry amount to willful monopolization?' " asks Judge Jon O. Newman, who presided over the SCM Corp.'s $1.5 billion antitrust suit against Xerox. Pretrial discovery took 3½ years ("Not bad, considering," says Newman), during which the judge had to write 46 separate opinions on procedural motions alone; such motions can be another delaying tactic that, in the words of Miller, is "limited only by a lawyer's demonic imagination." When...
Goldwater has filed suit in Federal District Court against Carter, seeking to have the new recognition of the People's Republic of China overturned...