Word: counsels
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Since last December, NACS's legal counsel, Arent, Fox, Kinter, Plotkin & Kahn, has collected nearly 80 complaints from more than 50 stores, which show that publishers offer a 40 percent discount rate to independent book stores and only 20 percent to college stores...
That may have been his second mistake. The government's lead counsel got exactly 201 words into his argument when the first Justice cut in, asking for a citation. Waxman recovered, mustered an additional 111 words about how it's technologically feasible for Websites to screen users by age, when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor interrupted. "Does that technology require use of something called cgi?" she asked, referring to a complex protocol for changing what users see on a Web page. "It does," agreed Waxman, thereby opening the door to a line of argument in which he found himself suggesting...
That isn't to say that Bruce Ennis, lead counsel for a coalition of 20 plaintiffs that included the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Library Association, didn't suffer his share of interruptions. The Justices were particularly unimpressed by his argument that the law was worthless because it could not stop naughty bits from flowing to the U.S. from overseas. But at least Ennis managed to do something Waxman never did: forcibly state his case. "For 40 years," he said, "this court has repeatedly and unanimously ruled that government cannot constitutionally reduce the adult population to reading...
...Angeles Times report that she made frequent prison visits to her old school chum Webster Hubbell, who has since announced that he will no longer cooperate with Starr's investigation. And for the darkest conspiracy theorists, there is this fact to chew on: Scott dropped by deputy counsel Vince Foster's office to offer her own friendly counsel the day before he committed suicide...
...used for political purposes--although the fact that Watkins was subsequently forced to resign for misuse of government property did not help the press secretary's case. For her part, Scott seemed unfazed by either Watkins' warning or a similar one from the White House counsel's office; her most damaging memos were written months after theirs...