Girdle inventor wins $31M in suit
Knut Bjorn-Lersen, a Norwegian immigrant living in Carpinteria, won a $31 million verdict against Munsingwear for stealing his garterless girdle design. A federal jury awarded $15 million for fraud, $500,000 for trade secrets, $500,000 for unfair competition, and $15 million in punitive damages after six weeks of testimony.
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Douglas Dowie
Los Angeles
UPI
Knut Bjorn-Lersen
Bjorn-Lersen
Munsingwear Inc
Munsingwear
Bjorn- Lersen
Garage
Life term for racial slaying in California
Darlin June Cromer was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the February 5 1980 murder of Reginald Williams Jr a 5 year old Black boy in Alameda County. Her appeal was announced by public defender Dean Beaupre after Judge Wilmot Sweeney denied a new trial and upheld the first degree murder conviction with a racism tied special circumstance.
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Oakland
Calif
Darlin June Cromer
Dean Beaupre
Cramer
Reginald Williams Jr
Alameda
Alameda County
Cromer
Pinole
Williams
California
Sweeney
June Saul
Swap ad sparks marriage swap mix up in Olympia
In Olympia a classified ad for a swap club drew mainly misdirected calls. Bob Gorham, 68, said he sought to trade various items and that the ad led to over a hundred responses daily. Many callers misunderstood the purpose and grew irate when told it was about trading, not wife swapping.
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Olympia
Wash
Bob Gorham
Daily Olympian
Gorham
Boragm
Rochester
Bombs Dropped By Accident Miss Lincoln National Forest
An Air Force T-38B inadvertently dropped six 25 pound practice bombs and two missiles into Lincoln National Forest New Mexico during a routine training mission near Bent Four miles from the town. Bomb squad cleared the ordnance with no injuries reported.
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N.M
Lincoln National Forest
Air Force
Bent, N.M
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