Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand. Perhaps this fall, defendant International Business Machines Corp. will begin submitting evidence to refute U.S. Justice Department claims that the company has "monopolized or attempted to monopolize" the general purpose digital-computer market. This defense effort is expected to require another three or four more courtroom years. At a pretrial hearing in 1973, U.S. Judge David Edelstein doggedly forecast that he would "prove the legal system is so advanced and so so phisticated that there is no case that's unmanageable." The verdict on that...
Ironically, the IBM case would not have been possible before the advent of the computer. The sheer numbers involved are staggering. IBM supplied an estimated 60 million pages of documents and other computer concerns provided 115 million more. The courtroom has now seen 4 million of those pages, through 50 witnesses and about 4,000 exhibits and 50,000 stenographic transcript pages of testimony; IBM has listed 350 additional witnesses for future swearing...
...Sept. 27, 1972, Bobby Lowe was walking his German shepherd named Ginger in front of his home on Chicago's west side. Lowe noticed William Logan, a neighbor who was a Teamster steward, strolling to his car at the curb. As Lowe vividly recalled the scene in courtroom testimony, an auto suddenly pulled up. Shots rang out, and "Mr. Logan flew back ... into some bushes." Next, said Lowe, a man sprang out of the car, apparently carrying a handgun, and walked up to Logan. Just then, Ginger lunged at the stranger. Lowe said that he grabbed...
...heavy motor oil; it was filed four years ago, but lawyers do not expect trial to begin until the early 1980s. That would about match the pace of a Justice Department suit seeking to break up IBM, which took six years to move to trial in a New York courtroom...
...convicted 41/2 years ago of fire-bombing a grocery store during racial disorders in the troubled river port of Wilmington. They were sentenced to terms totaling 282 years in prison. Last week, amid charges of perjury and coercion on both sides, the Wilmington Ten were back in a state courtroom, attempting to have the verdict overturned...