| Title |
Daniel L. Berman, Salt Lake City, Utah: Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Daniel L. Berman, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Berman, Daniel |
| Contributor |
Haddard, Mitch |
| Date |
1970-07-26 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Berman, Daniel L.--Interviews; Lawyers; Vanadium Corporation of America; Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation; Class actions (Civil procedure)--Utah; Uranium industry--United States |
| Keywords |
Anti-trust law; Sherman Antitrust Act; Niseley v. Union Carbide |
| Description |
Transcript (35 pages) of an interview by Mitch Haddard with Daniel L. Berman, on July 26, 1970. From tape number 50 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Mitch Haddard interviewed attorney Daniel Berman in his office in the Kearns building, downtown Salt Lake City. Subjects: background and law schooling, Niseley v. Union Carbide, the Village Theaters case, anti-trust lawyers and litigation (35 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
35 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6dj7np7 |
| Topic |
Lawyers; Uranium industry; Vanadium Corporation of America; Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation; Class actions (Civil procedure) |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055649 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dj7np7 |
| Title |
Page 16 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055627 |
| OCR Text |
Show DANIEL BERMAN /11 The Sherman Act was passed in 1890, so in the first sixty years, forty-eight years, fifty-eight years of anti-trust litigation, there was almost no anti-trust litigation in this country. That's understandable without the federal rules, without the opportunities to go in and find out from the defendant what they were doing. There was no way that you were ever going to get evidence. Niseley as an example would be one, a little bit to the contrary. In Niseley you had a guy who confessed, which was Burwell. Burwell was the key in the Niseley case. If you believe Burwell, there was no question that these guys violated the law, but he was there. He ran the Colorado Plateau for Union Carbide. MH: Burwell? DB: Yes. MH: I was also told that Howard Balsley was extremely influential in it, too. DB: Balsley was a miner, though. MH: Right. But he had a lot of records for your side. DB: Yes, Burwell was the defendant's employee who came over and testified .as to what was going on. He testified for the government in Denver, for the plaintiff in Continental Ore, and for the plaintiff in Niseley. With his testimony, there was never any 14 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dj7np7/1055627 |
