Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courtroom was shabby and ill-equipped. There were no proper gowns available for the lawyers, and when the visiting judge went to reach for the bell to call for order, he found none. "In the north," he said, "lawyers have gowns, and judges have bells. Here we have poverty." Then he turned to the man who had tried to alleviate some of that poverty...
...none of the newly independent nations of the Far East is hatred for the disinherited colonial masters so bitter and abiding as in Indonesia; in none is the notion of simple courtroom justice so little understood. Indonesia's bitterness and its slap-happy courtroom practices have reached fever pitch in the year-long trial of Leon Nicolaas Jungschlaeger, a 52-year-old Dutch citizen accused of conspiring to overthrow the Indonesian government. The Jungschlaeger case has become a cause celebre throughout Indonesia and The Netherlands...
...Montgomery County courthouse. Then, for four days last week, the tramp of Negro feet sounded heavy in the dingy downstairs corridors, on the creaking steps and in the second-floor hallway (with its sign reading, "Gentlemen will not and others must not spit on the floor"). In the drab courtroom, decorated by an American flag and five advertising calendars, Negro voices were raised in pain and anger. And outside the old courthouse, shabby for all its pretensions of Greek revival elegance, a Negro crowd roared hope...
...Senate Committee on Disarmament will hold its first hearings in the James Barr Ames Courtroom of the Law School Monday, April 9, to get opinions from Boston's public and academic community, David F. Cavers, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, announced yesterday...
With the cry of the bailiff one morning last week, the jampacked courtroom in Birmingham's Federal Building fell silent, stood as Judge H. Hobart Grooms, lanky veteran of more than a quarter century of practice as a Birmingham lawyer, took his place. Beyond the closed courtroom doors, in the corridor, latecomers waited patiently, hoping for a chance at seats...