Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consistently overruled defense motions and objections. When four lawyers who had helped to prepare the defense sent telegrams withdrawing from the case, Judge Hoffman issued bench warrants for their arrest. He ordered two of them-Gerald B. Lefcourt of New York and Michael Tigar of Santa Monica-jailed for contempt. The others-Michael Kennedy of San Francisco and Dennis Roberts of Oakland-obtained a supervening order from a U.S. district judge in San Francisco. Ordinarily, a lawyer appears in court to withdraw from a case; Hoffman was overreacting to a relatively minor breach of courtroom protocol. Although Judge Hoffman later...
Stauder, reacting to the department's decision, said last night that "any honest Faculty member who seriously studies what happened in my case is bound to come up with the conclusion that the Administration and Corporation have behaved in a way which shows their essential contempt for the Faculty and students...
Kunstler denounced the contempt of court charges which were leveled against his fellow lawyers by Federal District Court Judge Julius Hoffman. "The lawyers are in great jeopardy in the Chicago case," he said...
...only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness -an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder...
...four lawyers who withdrew had agreed to do only pretrial work for the case. The judge ruled them in contempt because they did not appear in court, after sending the telegrams...