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...didn't make it. His lawyer did remind the jury of "the presumption in the law that the jury should treat the plaintiff as an innocent man who had the misfortune to have been wrongly convicted." But, The People's attorney replied, "here is a man who has been at pains to destroy his reputation throughout his adult life, claiming damages for injury to his reputation." As evidence of that, the defense sought to introduce the fact of his conviction. On a preliminary appeal, Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls, ruled that the jury could consider the conviction...
Last week the court answered that question for the first time. Out went a New York privacy judgment against Time Inc., publisher of LIFE magazine. In came a new standard: the First Amendment protects the press against privacy suits for false news reports-unless the plaintiff manages to prove conclusively that the report was deliberately or recklessly false...
...married Richard Burton. Eddie doesn't think Liz ever got a valid divorce, since he was not represented at the 1964 proceedings in Mexico. And to make the joke seem even bigger, he requested the court "to determine the nature and extent of the community property of the plaintiff and the defendant and that the same be divided equally between them." On that basis, Plaintiff Fisher could collect as community property about $1,000,000 of the money she earned in Cleopatra, her epic romance with Dick...
...though not the altimeter maker, thus conspicuously dispensing with privity. (Ironically, Mrs. Goldberg decided not to sue Lockheed, simply settled out of court with American Airlines for some $10,000.) In the Goldberg case, relaxing the privity requirement also imposed "strict liability" on the manufacturer. Under this principle, the plaintiff is not obliged to show that the manufacturer lacked foresight or was actually negligent in causing the defect. The plaintiff need only show that the product was faulty and that the injury occurred. In short, consumers are now entitled to assume that more and more products will work safely...
...overly alarmed about the new legal risks, which are still mainly aimed at manufacturers. Manhattan Lawyer Harry H. Lipsig foresees suits against engineers in only two general situations: 1) where the manufacturer has gone out of business, or is financially weaker than the engineering firm; 2) where the plaintiff finds the engineer in a more convenient jurisdiction than the manufacturer, as when a U.S. engineer designs a machine that is then built abroad...