| 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 17 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055628 |
| OCR Text |
Show DANIEL BERMAN /11 question that these cases weren't merely circumstantial cases. MH: They were pretty well briefed and well evidenced, as well. DB: Well, again, it was a question of whether Burwell was telling the truth. Well, the reason I bring that up is because you don't usually find anti-trust violations where you have somebody sitting in the hotel rooms, and say "Okay, I' 11 tell you what's happened." If you don't have a chance to go in and really have at him, dig around, then it's just like what you're doing now. It would be pretty hard to write the history, I guess, without going and talking to the people and finding out what they did anyway. MH: Going into the uranium industry itself, or any mineral industry which is subject to such a boom, as uranium did, as you say, it was a late comer. It came at a time when they had a lot of other pressures on the uranium industry besides, just being used for radioactivity. There was the fear of the bomb and lot of public thing going on with uranium as well. Do you think the government actually had a fear of having this industry monopolized by private companies? Is this one reason that they wanted--? DB: You're asking a person that's really uninformed. Now 15 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dj7np7/1055628 |
