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...campaign contributions for Reagan. She also told a newspaper interviewer that Betsy first learned of her husband's infidelity from Nancy Reagan, which was emphatically denied by a Reagan aide. The White House's discomfiture rose even higher when it was disclosed that Marvin Mitchelson, the well-known palimony lawyer who briefly represented Morgan, had discussed the case with Morgan Mason, special assistant to the President. Mitchelson says the two talked about the suit for two hours at the White House; Mason said it came up in the course of a social dinner at a Washington restaurant...
...Mitchelson has two major obstacles to success. The first is, as he acknowledges, that victory would require some court to create a new "right" for mistresses. Judges are almost always ginger about expanding legal rights--even when strong gut feelings are involved, especially when freaky facts are involved. The right would presumably be one allowing mistresses to be free from a lover's coercion in deciding whether to bear a child...
...Mitchelson himself allows that "No one else has ever sued for a right quite like this, and Harvard Law School expert Frank E. A. Sander calls Mitchelson's assertion "totally novel and rather questionable." Adds Sander: "It would be a novel--to put it mildly--notion to say that someone can claim damages by the right to be impregnated...
...uncharacteristic legal blunder by Mitchelson could also harm Perry's case. He disclosed to several reporters last week that his client would actually drop her case if Atkinson would again impregnate her, artificially or naturally...
Atkinson was flabbergasted by the request, and so, it seems, was Perry. This Monday she hastily convened a news conference to say that she no longer would settle for impregnation; Mitchelson had spoken wrong. The end result: Mitchelson looked like a headline-grabber, not an innovative attorney, and his client looked positively flaky. Wire service reporters have taken to calling her case the "no-deposit, no-return" lawsuit. Other monikers are less subtle...