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When Luther and Ida Aguchak failed to make payments on their new snowmobile and freezer, Montgomery Ward went into small-claims court in Anchorage, Alaska. A summons was issued and mailed to the Aguchaks, who live in a remote Eskimo village 500 miles away. Though they received the notice, the Aguchaks had neither the time nor money to make the $186 overnight air trip that was necessary to get to court. When they failed to appear to answer the summons, a default judgment was entered against them, and that seemed to be that...
...quite. On the advice of a Legal Services lawyer, the Aguchaks sued, arguing that the action by Montgomery Ward violated the due-process clause of the state's constitution. Last month the Alaska Supreme Court agreed. Noting that the U.S. Supreme Court has held that due process must be "appropriate to the nature of the case," the Alaska justices unanimously concluded that the outlying areas of their state presented special problems. Indigent rural defendants, they said, not only would find answering a summons difficult, but few of them would be near enough to a lawyer to get advice...
...Because blame for an accident must be determined before claims are settled in most states, motorists frequently face costly court battles and years of delay before receiving compensation for their pains. One-fourth of all accident victims never collect a dime. Last week Congress took a first step to ward remedying that situation. After heated debate, the Senate passed (53-42) and sent to the House a national no-fault auto insurance bill...
...Kevin Ward, a junior from Adams House and the "big time operator and coordinator" of this year's race, awarded prizes to the individual contestants...
...prize of the day went to the Queen Mab, an imitation of a paddle-wheel river boat. Ward awarded four cases of beer to the craft, citing it as "the most extravagant, colossal and stupendous raft and the most likely to be hit by low flying aircraft...