Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no way of knowing what litigation costs U. S. citizens each year. Civil court machinery in the city of New York alone costs Federal, State and city governments more than $17,000,000 per year. Only since the War has there been serious attention paid to that field of law which aims to avoid litigation, namely, arbitration. Prime U. S. force seeking to eliminate needless litigation is the American Arbitration Association, which this month is starting its twelfth year of activity...
...them. Since it is private, wide publicity has not favored it. Because it is voluntary, it is hard to get started, but once agreed to, arbitration can be final: its decisions are legally enforceable in 13 States.* First modern arbitration law in the U. S. was passed by New York in 1920, although the methods date to Colonial times...
Within the past two years the A. A. A. has organized facilities to handle as many cases involving injured persons and accident claims as could be taken out of crowded city courts. In New York City co-operation of the bar associations and the presiding justices of the city and municipal courts was readily obtainable. From these courts cases which would take as long as three years to bring to trial have been settled by arbitration within a few days after submission to the A. A. A. So far, 43 insurance companies have submitted 3,915 casualty cases, nearly half...
...Arizona, California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York was the first top-rank executive of the nation to call a venereal disease by its name. Said he: "Once the facts become generally known, the humanitarian appeal of syphilis will be fully as great, or even greater than that presented by any communicable disease...