Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Attorney Jan Baran, whose roster of G.O.P. clients has included the Republican National Committee, announced that he would no longer appear before the committee as the Speaker's counsel. "I wish to make clear that my firm did not submit any material information to the ethics committee without Mr. Gingrich's prior review and approval," Baran said. Congressman John Linder, a fellow Georgian apparently deputized to speak for the Speaker, acknowledged that Gingrich had filed a false statement with the committee but fired back that any problem was the fault of the lawyer, who "was hired and paid...
...granted permission to return by year's end to the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, to complete tests for possible breast cancer. There she has been serving a sentence of up to 18 months on a contempt of court citation for refusing to testify before independent counsel Kenneth Starr's grand jury--a matter on which she has shown no signs of relenting...
...court to hear a new set of indictments against him and 13 of the 24 self-styled Freemen of Jordan, Montana. Clark, a leader of the group, listened carefully to the litany--false tax claims, bank fraud, threats against federal officials, firearms violations--and then refused counsel. "All these things are better done by a lawyer than a lay person," admonished U.S. Magistrate Richard Anderson. "This isn't a game, Mr. Clark." To which Clark replied, "Well, I haven't granted you venue or jurisdiction...
Talk about stubborn (or, if you prefer, principled). After an 81-day siege on the former Clark farm last spring and another six months in jail, most of the Freemen have remained faithful to their professed belief in the Federal Government's illegitimacy. They have largely refused counsel, objecting--and belching loudly--at pretrial hearings. Two weeks ago, a federal judge authorized "such reasonable force as necessary" to take their finger and palm prints. Trials are expected to begin no earlier than March...
...sincerely love each other' should be denied this status," he explains. Gay-rights groups also expect wide repercussions, though of a very different kind. "This decision was an extraordinary turning point," declares Evan Wolfson, an attorney at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who served as co-counsel for the three couples, "because we now have in the cool, clear light of a courtroom a judge saying that there is no reason for government discrimination in marriage...