Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-judge federal court (including Judge John Minor Wisdom, head of the contested Eisenhower delegation to the Republican National Convention in 1952) ruled that the Louisiana statute violates the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment, issued a temporary injunction to prevent the state from enforcing the law. Plaintiff in the lawsuit: Joe Dorsey, New Orleans Negro light-heavyweight prizefighter. Biggest probable beneficiary: the Sugar Bowl, which for two years has had trouble getting top Northern football teams, most of which have Negro players...
...undergo operation by Dr. Joseph W. Graves for correction of a hernia and removal of a diseased left testicle. In the morning, each patient got preliminary anesthetic, and was trundled off to the operating rooms. One room was reserved for Dr. Ray, one for Dr. Graves. That, said Plaintiff Huggins, was where things went wrong: he was sent with Patient Slater's chart to Dr. Graves's operating room, while Slater got Huggins' chart and went to Dr. Ray's theater...
...last week's election (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was bringing a $200,000 alienation-of-affections and slander suit against Billy Kjeldahl, 30, the lady's administrative assistant. Billy had not only "interfered" with his marital rights, charged 50-year-old Innkeeper Andy; he had also called the plaintiff "an impotent old alcoholic...
...quick to qualify it: "It is to be noted that we are not dealing here with the use of judicial process to force a wholesale disclosure of a newspaper's confidential sources of news... The question asked of the appellant (Miss Torre) went to the heart of the plaintiff's (Miss Garland) claim. We hold that the Constitution conferred no right to refuse an answer...
Witness for the Prosecution. In Philadelphia, John Blakeley, plaintiff in a drunken-driving case in which his car was clunked, was jailed for ten days for showing up in court intoxicated...