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...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...
Whom could future disaster victims sue? The Federal Tort Claims Act establishes that the Government is liable at most for proved negligence of its employees. Contractors, except a few working for the Atomic Energy Commission or doing Defense Department research, are on their own; if their products are at fault in a catastrophe, they can be liable for enough to outstrip any conceivable insurance and bankrupt them many times over. But to collect even a few cents on the dollar, the victim would probably face the staggering job of pinning down in court exactly which of perhaps dozens of contractors...
...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...
...first, up-from-the-roundhouse railroaders grumbled that Lawyer Alpert did not know a trestle from a tort-but none could question his zeal. Repeatedly, Alpert has argued that i) commuter travel is necessary, 2) the commuters cannot be expected to bear all the costs of the rail service they require and 3) somebody...
Entitled The Bigamist, this Italian film might be called No Noise is Good Noise. It features Vittorio de Sica as "an eloquent but absent-minded wind-bag lawyer who can't tell a tort from a tortoni." Though Mr. de Sica takes his limited role firmly by the tail, he overshakes it until it becomes disappointing...