Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of this hearing or any other NLRB hearing is quite 'different from a lawsuit. We have to let in hearsay evidence and immaterial things so we may get at the material things. The strict rules of evidence are not followed. Only the material facts are considered in the trial examiner's opinion and in the rulings of the Board. The immaterial is rejected. Rulings on objections are entirely within the discretion of the trial examiner. Nobody is injured or harmed by this procedure. We are charged with the duty of conducting the inquiry on a thorough...
Most fantastic courtroom swigger is Coca-Cola's prize defense witness, Curator Perry Wilbur Fattig of Emory University's Museum. In a lawsuit brought by a disgruntled consumer who had found a drowned black widow spider in the bottom of his Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig put a live, wriggling black widow spider into his mouth, crunched and swal- owed it, sat quietly in the courtroom the rest of the session. Since chemical action of carbonated water sterilizes insect matter, Curator Fattig thinks nothing at all of downing such sodaed morsels as grasshoppers, houseflies, small toads and frogs...
With another bathing-suit season at hand, local lawmakers are aiming their ordinances at males on the score of topless suits* rather than at underclad females. A five-year-old male bathing lawsuit came to trial last week in Chicago but an alleged lower exposure, not an upper, had started it. And though the fight was between two-lawyers, the only persons hurt were three policemen...
...been applied in modern law not only to lands but to personal property, unclaimed savings deposits, dividends, and securities. Most laymen and many lawyers think of escheat only when persons die without wills and heirs. Last week smart lawyers all over the U. S. eyed with admiration a lawsuit filed in the Dauphin County Court at Harrisburg to compel the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to collect by escheat some 15 millions tucked away in the treasuries of Pennsylvania's 150 biggest corporations. If the suit succeeds, its two principal sponsors, a pair of young Philadelphia lawyers named Michael Edelman...
Snapped white-haired Judge Edward Ridley Finch of New York State's well-clogged Court of Appeals: "Any advantage in simplifying procedure might be outweighed by the aid given to the nuisance value of unfounded litigation. . . . Even now it is less expensive to settle a lawsuit than to defend it. ... The attorney for the plaintiff may limit his charges to a part, or perhaps all, of the amount recovered, but a defendant has no such refuge. The more examinations and applications to a court a plaintiff may make, the greater is the nuisance value." More to the point, thought...