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Marvin M. Mitchelson isn't your average lawyer. He's the fellow who coined the term "palimony" and then wrote it into the law books by winning big bucks for a woman claiming to be the ex-lover of wealthy actor Lee Marvin. Mitchelson's forte, in other words, is legal derring-do, and he recently sounded his call to arms again in an eyebrow-raising sex case involving a female Harvard professor. But this time, he probably...
...Mitchelson's client is Lee Perry '64, an assistant professor of Education who has been teaching psychology and counseling at the Graduate School of Education for five years. She's suing Richard C. Atkinson, chancellor of the University of California at San Diego and former head of the National Science Foundation, saying he was guilty of "fraud and deceit" and "intentional infliction of emotional distress" during an affair he and Perry allegedly had between about 1976 and 1978. Atkinson denies any liason...
...talked her into having a wrenching abortion, and then broke his firm pledge to impregnate her again. What's more, he's predicting a "precedent-setting" verdict in Perry's favor that he says will encourage other betrayed lovers to undertake similar suits. A victory for Perry, Mitchelson says, would also deter men from making false promises to mistresses to escape embarassing predicaments...
...Perry is telling the truth--and reporters covering the story generally believe there was some affair between her and Atkinson--her case has strong gut appeal. In Mitchelson's words, her million-dollar suit says, in effect: "I lost a baby because you deceived me, you lied to me." At 38, Perry may well be too old to bear her first child, according to her attorney, who says having her own child has always been one of the psychologist's major desires. If Perry's facts are right, it's dead wrong that Atkinson--who is 53 and married...
...describes herself as a public relations agent, had made in her career as a lounge singer. The appeals court upheld the concept of palimony but nixed the settlement, ruling that "Triola sustained no damages by virtue of her living with Marvin." You guessed it: Michelle's attorney, Marvin Mitchelson, plans an appeal...