Word: court
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well, I'll get my day(s) in court soon enough and the cause ((of the oil spill)) will seem pretty mundane and simple after...
...After the spill, Hazelwood became a marked man. He flew home to Huntington Bay, shaved his beard to change his appearance, and was promptly arrested. In court an assistant district attorney called him "the architect of an American tragedy," and a state supreme court judge compared the damage from the spill to the destruction of Hiroshima. Hazelwood was held overnight in a lockup with more than 50 other prisoners, many of them accused or convicted murderers, armed robbers and drug dealers. When his cellmates learned that his bond had been set at $1 million (and bail at $500,000), they...
...hours last Friday morning, more than 40 lawyers, reporters and Wall Street speculators camped outside a quiet office in the Delaware Court of Chancery in Wilmington. They were anxiously awaiting the outcome of one of the most intensely watched corporate takeover fights in the 197-year history of the court. When clerks appeared at 10:30 with copies of Chancellor William Allen's 79-page ruling, the aggressive crowd tore the documents from the court officials' hands. Dialing their offices, moneymen shouted into their cellular phones, "The Time-Warner merger...
Acknowledging his harsh criticism of the Reagan appointees and the Court's conservative majority, Rom said, "I didn't come here to editorialize, but I can't help...
...Patricia McGovern (D-Lawrence) chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, voted for the override but admitted it was a symbolic gesture. McGovern said Dukakis has the legal power to make the cuts and is right when he says the money is not there. Several court precedents, she said, have clearly established the power of the governor to freeze spending...