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...members and naturally deferred to the experience of the Acting Senior Fellow. Only William Marbury could approach Coolidge's longevity, and although he and Coolidge comprised the Corporation's Special Committee to study the Fury Case, he seems to have followed his colleague's lead. A descendant of the plaintiff in Marbury v. Madison (1803), Marbury was a Baltimore lawyer and personal friend of Alger Hiss. In fact, one reason for his unsureness in the Furry case was a disappointment with the outcome of Hiss's trial and a belief that the convicted perjurer had lied even to his closest...
...courts to hold that line. Though his fascinating and well-documented article does not disclose it, he is general counsel of American Airlines.* He is understandably fretful and concerned about two recent state court decisions in Oregon and Washington, flatly holding that airway noise is compensable even though the plaintiff's airspace is not violated...
Because annoyance is subjective, says Manhattan Lawyer George A. Spater in the Michigan Law Review, courts usually insist on tangible harm before they do anything about noise. Typically, the plaintiff recovers only if noise decreases the value of his property. Recovery for personal injury is rare, says Spater; recovery because of mere sensitivity to noise is impossible...
...grisly ac cident in 1962 when she was driving her fiance's 1960 Corvair on a narrow two-lane highway near El Nido. The car swerved out of control and hit a 16-ton truck head on, killing her fiance and one of her five children. For Plaintiff Collins, Lawyer David Harney called 46 expert witnesses to back the Collins claim that the 1960 Corvair was "inherently defective." Judge John D. Foley instructed the jury: "The manufacturer of an article who places it on the market for use under circumstances where it knows that such article will be used...
...eight weeks, California's key Corvair case has been on trial in San Jose. The plaintiff is Doreen Collins, a pleasant-faced divorcee who seeks $400,000 in compensatory damages for a grisly accident in 1962 when she was driving her five children and her new fiance on a camping trip in a 1960 Corvair. Suddenly swinging out of control, the car hit a truck headon, killing one child and the fiance. U.S. Racing Driver Paul O'Shea has taken the stand to back the Collins claim that the Corvair was unsafe. British Racing Driver Stirling Moss...