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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Bigamist | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Grisly Package. Belli's most noteworthy contribution to tort-trials is in his use of "demonstrative evidence," i.e., visual aids. He will take his skeleton, named "Elmer," into the courtroom and show the jury by experts' testimony exactly where plaintiff broke a bone, then stalk to his portable blackboard to draw diagrams of the accident scene. Often he chalks figures to justify the damages he is demanding-so much per hour for pain, so much for medical bills, so much in lost wages, etc., etc.-occasionally makes a deliberate mistake in addition, so as to let an alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Plaintiff's Counsel | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...Tort. In London, attempting to point up the "rather monotonous English style in legal documents," the Law Society's Gazette printed a letter written by an Indian lawyer to a client: "Dear Sir, Unless you pay the rupees within seven days, we shall take such steps as will cause you the utmost damned astonishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...Illinois, a defendant who loses a tort suit and does not pay the damages can be jailed if "malice is the gist of the action." And as charged in Theresa's suit, Alma "maliciously" alienated Roy Fergerson's affections. She could thus be jailed at the wronged woman's discretion, and last week she was. Willingly, the first Mrs. Fergerson paid the jail fees for incarcerating the second: $1 admission and $3.50 weekly. "This whole thing is silly," wailed Alma, who can be kept in jail for six months. Snug at home, the former Mrs. Fergerson trilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Last Laugh | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...when Leo [Durocher] the Lip dashes onto the field to claim "Somebody done me wrong!"-or "On me fait tort!"-he is likewise raising the clameur, which is still known on the sport pages and the radio by a vestige of the original phrase: it's a "Hay Rube Bob !"-or a "Rhubarb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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