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1971Year W Jones, suspended by Phila (NBA) for failure to come to terms over contract, files suit in Fed Dist Ct, Phila, seeking $5-million in damages
suit is comprehensive attack on structure of NBA Wally Jones Sues N.B.A. For $5‐Million in Damages
1972Year trial date of Nov 5, '73, is set for Control Data Corp v IBM antitrust suit in Minn Fed Ct
suit is considered to be most inportant of 6 antitrust actions filed against IBM Trial Date Is Set for Suit By Control Data on I.B.M.
1972Year NYU Prof M W Schwartz files suit, NYS Sup Ct, to invalidate recent reapportionment of NYS Legis
suit is directed against Gov Rockefeller, Atty Gen Lefkowitz, Lt Gov Wilson and Assembly Speaker Duryea; holds reapportionment plan violates NYS Const because it fragments counties, ignoring requirements that Legis dist be as compact as practicable and consist of contiguous territory; contends plan also violates US Const prohibition against 'pol gerrymandering'; ILGWU official D I Wells files supporting affidavit; map Suit Filed to Invalidate State's Redistricting Plan
1974Year Former Teamster pres James R Hoffa sues Pres Nixon and Atty Gen William B Saxbe in Fed Dist Ct, Washington, DC, charging that they have illegally prevented him from holding union office
suit is effort to remove major obstacle to Hoffa's proclaimed goal of winning Teamsters pres again; is civil rather than criminal action but some allegations accuse Govt officials of activities that can be construed as criminal; contends Govt barred Hoffa from union activity in return for favors from current Teamsters pres Frank E Fitzsimmons; says Fitzsimmons contributed pol aid, campaign donations and other services for Nixon and his assistants; says restriction on Hoffa's activities is without precedent among Pres grants of clemency and is illegal; says neither Atty Gen at time, John N Mitchell, nor Justice Dept pardon atty Lawrence M Talyor recommended that restriction be placed in clemency order when Hoffa was released from Fed prison on Dec 22, ‘71; charges that Charles W Colson, former special counsel to Nixon, had restrictions added; says in return Colson was apptd Teamsters gen counsel; Taylor says John W Dean 3d, then counsel to Pres Nixon, told him to place restrictions in clemency order (M) Hoff a Sues Nixon for Free Role in Union
1973Year suit is filed on July 26 in Fed Ct, New Brunswick, NJ, to block Hackensack Meadowlands sports complex on ground that it will violate Fed Clean Air Act by creating unacceptable pollution from heavy auto traffic
suit is entered on behalf of 3 NJ residents and embraces as a class action all of state's residents; names as defendants NJ Sports and Exposition Auth chmn Werblin and State Environmental Protection Agency Comr R J Sullivan; complainants named in suit are M Wuillamey, J Drago and B Eisler Suit Filed to Block Big Sports Complex In Meadowlands
2004Year Redesign of Men's Fitness bears such close resemblance to Men's Health, leading men's fitness magazine, that Rodale Inc, publisher of Men's Health, intends to sue
suit is expected to revolve around trade dress, distinctive features that convey to consumers who is providing the goods at hand; American Media, owner of Men's Fitness, says there was no intent to copy Men's Health; photo (M) Magazine Finds a Rival a Bit Too Familiar