Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago married the sheriff of Plaquemines' daughter and moved down from Chicago. One of his clients is Merlis Broussard, 45, a barrel-chested black construction worker who once helped dig a crayfish pond behind Chalin Perez's new home. They have just won a federal court suit to end the parish's method of selecting council members, which has long kept blacks from exercising political power...
...buzz of Polaroids and Instamatics. The bus makes twelve more stops in the hour and a half before reaching Graceland, and all of them have a poignant meaning for the fans. They see the boarded-up men's shop on Beale Street where Elvis bought his first sequined suit. They see Nathan Novick's pawnshop, where he got his first guitar at the age of eleven. They stop at St. Joseph Hospital, where his mother worked as a nurse's aide, and the public housing apartment on Exchange Street where the family lived. When they stop...
...Innocent, which depicted four female inmates of a detention home raping a teen-age girl with a "plumber's helper." Arguing that NBC should be held responsible for causing Olivia's rape, Lewis slapped the network and its San Francisco affiliate, KRON-TV, with an $11 million suit on Olivia's behalf...
Personal Injury Lawyer Lewis sought to try the case by the same negligence standard used in an ordinary whiplash suit. NBC should have foreseen that its movie might inspire violent crime, he maintained; therefore the network, like a homeowner who leaves a banana peel lying on his front stoop where someone could slip on it, should pay damages to the victim. Constitutional Lawyer Abrams, on the other hand, argued that his clients should be held liable only if the network actually intended to cause attacks like the one on Niemi...
...earnest-looking man in a conservative suit comes on the television screen. No, he is not the fellow from H & R Block offering you another way to save tax dollars or even a used-car salesman trying to appear sincere. He is a lawyer, offering you a good price for a divorce, a will or a suit of almost any kind...