Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acrimony. Despite all Ruby's efforts to gain attention, it was really a lawyers' week in Judge Joe Brown's small courtroom. Chief Defense Attorney Melvin Belli and his assistant, Texas Lawyer Joe Tonahill, subpoenaed more than 150 witnesses to help prove the defense contention that Ruby cannot get a fair trial in Dallas. Belli brought only 41 of them to the stand. Most of them agreed that it would be difficult to find twelve unprejudiced men for a jury; but then again, they thought it would be possible. Department Store Operator Stanley Marcus, for one, thought...
News photos out of Saigon last week showed two Vietnamese soldiers ushering through a courtroom door a little man in white who seemed so weak that he had to be held on his feet. He was Ngo Dinh Can, 50, brother of South Viet Nam's two murdered ex-leaders, Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, and once the tough overlord of central Viet Nam. While Can ruled, the Viet Cong moved warily in the region, but he made lots of other enemies as well. Fleeing for his life after the anti-Diem coup, Can sought asylum...
Arbitration offers the further advantage of privacy. Charges aired in a courtroom can damage a firm's reputation even when it is ultimately found to be blameless. In arbitration, even the loser's good name is safeguarded: hearings are closed to the public and awards are kept secret. As some lawyers see it, the greatest merit of arbitration in business disputes is that experts decide the outcome. In a dispute over faulty workmanship in houses, for example, the A.A.A. panel consisted of an architect, a building-materials manufacturer, and an insurance executive specializing in housing matters. To make...
...courtroom defeats are not necessarily final. Belli promptly requested that the presiding judge overrule the jury on the question of liability and or der a new trial to determine damages...
...Attorney Joseph Wicks in his closing plea quoted the First Commandment in ringing tones, then stared at the Goldmarks to demand, "Would a Communist say there is no other God? What is God to an atheistic Communist?" Mrs. Goldmark, tears streaming down her face, rushed out of the crowded courtroom...