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Under Reporter David L. Shapiro, a professor at the Law School, the research staff, composed entirely of Harvard Law students, began finding out all there was to know about free press-fair trial conflict. "The subject has never been more thoroughly studied at any other time," Reardon attested...
...drunken U.S. sailor made off with a mail truck in Naples and hit eight cars. In the process, he injured several Italians and a New Jersey tourist named Shirley Shapiro, who still has only partial use of her legs. After a Navy court-martial, the sailor went to prison for ten months. As far as the Italians were concerned, the U.S. Government was prepared to consider their claims for damages. But Mrs. Shapiro was unable to collect a dollar, much less a lira...
...committed while performing their duty or against another American stationed in that country. The host country has jurisdiction over all other cases, but usually waives it even for serious offenses. Although SOFA provides U.S. tort liability when servicemen are on duty abroad, the .U.S. sailor who hit Mrs. Shapiro was off duty; although she could have sued the sailor personally, he was too poor to make it worthwhile. All of which left Mrs. Shapiro with no chance of adequate recovery...
...lawyers have just produced the only remedy: a private bill enacted by Congress and signed by the President. The bill awards Mrs. Shapiro $120,000-and applies only to her. In similar circumstances, another tourist will have to repeat the whole process...
...other countries, his marriage is legal as far as the state is concerned; but the rabbis claim that Cohn is living in sin, and are putting pressure on Israel's powerful National Religious Party to force his resignation. Cohn intends to keep his post, and Justice Minister Yaakov Shapiro supports him. "The observance of the precepts of the Torah is a private matter between a man and his God," he says, reflecting the state's secular view but merely angering the Orthodox rabbis that much more...