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Staff Photos by TIM ASHNER
Tennis turnaround
Instead of using the tennis court for a game of tennis, Christian Weiss, economics Weiss sat on the courts behind Robinson Gymnasium, where the late afternoon sun cast a graduate student from Germany, used the court for a place to relax with a good book. network of shadows through the surrounding fence.
Many recover losses in small claims court
Staff Writer
By VERNON SMITH Staff Writer
A week ago you lent a friend $50 so he could go to sunny Florida during spring break while you stayed in dull old Lawrence.
He promised to pay you as soon as he returned, but after being back in town for a week she said she had affected his memory, for you have yet to bring it home. It is beginning to look as if you have been taken
If you can afford to do so, you could chalk the experience up as a lesson in life. But if you really feel strongly about it, you can take him to the small claims court.
Joy Burns, a clerk in the office of Specialized Divisions of the Douglas County District Court, said yesterday the small claims court provided individuals and businesses the opportunity to recover what they may have without having to pay high legal fees.
The **£5 filing fee**, she said, covers all of the court costs; including the cost for sub-creditors.
Burns said that to file a case in Douglas County, the defendant must live, work, or be able to be served by a subpoena in Douglas County. And it is the plaintiff's, not the court's responsibility to know the defense's whereabouts so this can be done, she said.
Small claims court proceedings are very informal, Burns said. Lawyers are not used, so individuals argue their own cases before a judge. The plaintiff and the defendant are each allowed 15 minutes to present evidence and 5 minutes for cross-examining each other. If the jury is on the $300 limit to the amount of damages which an individual can collect, she said.
In the three years that she has been associated with the small claims cases,
Burns said she could only recall two cases in which the defendants won.
Appeals, she said, must be made within 10 days after the original judgment is made. A $35 filing fee is assessed and the case is treated as a civil case.
However, there is a two year statute of limitations on the original petition.
If the individual against whom the judgment was rendered should decide not to pay, Burns said of execution order judges that the court may appear before the court and be questioned. A person falling to appear in court by this order may be cainted and punished for conspiracy.
Also, any individual who refuses to comply with the court's judgment that he must pay the assessed damages could have his wages garnished, she said.
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New leaks in oil tanker creates doubt of cleanup
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BREST, France (AP)—Millions more gallons of oil poured through new blues in the tanker Amoco Cadiz, razing doubts about the environmental shattered skin dvr could ever be carried out.
The official French report last night said all the oil pollution was with three miles of the north Brittany coast and extending further north. The report cited the English channel to the Bay of Lannion.
The tanker already has spilled between 20 million and 38 million gallons of its 55 million-gallon cargo along the northwest coast of France, according to Adm.
Jacquet Coulondres, commander of the anti-pollution efforts here.
Earlier reports estimated the cargo at nearly 68 million gallons.
A French Navy spokesman said several of the vessel's 15 tanks were breached by yesterday's rough seas, in addition to four that had broken earlier. There was no reliable estimate how much additional oil the new breaks would release.
Sunday high spring tides will almost cover the wreck, forcing a halt to any pumping work.