Word: tort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without a trial. Never before had such a case been successfully pleaded, the state pointed out. In 1963 the Illinois Appellate Court dismissed a similar suit (Zepeda v. Zepeda) on the ground that recognition of a bastard's right to collect damages would mean creation of a new tort. If that happened, ruled the Illinois court, "one might seek damages for being born of a certain color, another because of race, one for being born with a hereditary disease, another for inheriting unfortunate family characteristics; one for being born into a large and destitute family, another because a parent...
...latter three torts often conflict with the constitutional rights of free speech and press, but in the Hambergers' case, the applicable tort of intrusion requires only "the invasion of something secret, secluded or private pertaining to the plaintiff." As for bugged bedrooms, ruled Kenison, "this is the type of intrusion that would be offensive to any person of ordinary sensibilities...
Such intrusion goes "beyond the limits of decency," said the judge, and Defendant Eastman could not avoid the suit by arguing lack of proof that anyone ever heard the bedroom sounds. The tort of intrusion does not require "publicity and communication to third persons, although this would affect the amount of the damages...
...This Administration is trying to dis tort that concern so that you will be frightened into thinking that we want a war. This is nothing...
...that holocaust is recalled in a new study of Government liability by Columbia University's Legislative Drafting Research Fund, which points out that Texas City victims waited nine years for their first penny of Government compensation. After the Supreme Court ruled they could not collect under the Tort Claims Act, a special act of Congress allowed them just $16,698,000 against damages estimated up to $300 million...