Word: courtroom
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Denver Lawyer James Gaius Watt, 42, scarcely looks like a stormy petrel. He is a balding, affable attorney with a reputation for being a workaholic dedicated to absorbing every relevant fact in a lawsuit-and then using the facts to devastating effect in the courtroom. Son of a lawyer in Lusk, Wyo., who represented ranchers and farmers, Watt married Leilani Bomgardner while still a student at the University of Wyoming (J.D. '62). He worked as a legislative aide to former Republican Senator Milward Simpson, then became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior and later, commissioner of the Federal Power...
Mountain States is dedicated to bringing "a balanced perspective in the courtroom" to protect "the concepts of the private enterprise system." Thus Mountain States sued successfully to block the Colorado Public Utilities Commission from requiring utilities to sell natural gas to the elderly and handicapped poor at discount rates. The fund contended that the state should not require private companies to pursue "public welfare" goals to the detriment of other power users...
...Chicago courtroom two weeks ago, the onetime angel pleaded not guilty to charges that he had stolen $1.3 million from his employer over the past four years to support his wife's ambitions. It was one of Cook County's largest embezzlement cases, and it could be a tragic last act for a promising opera company...
...packed federal courtroom in Washington last week, the many retired FBI agents on hand chorused an audible sigh of relief. That was when Judge William Bryant announced the sentences for two former top agents convicted on Nov. 6 for their roles in approving illegal break-ins during the Nixon Administration in the early 1970s. Found by a jury to have conspired to violate citizens' Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, W. Mark Felt, 67, who had been the FBI's deputy director, and Edward S. Miller, 52, once its chief of domestic intelligence...
They lived for a time with Diana's parents in Hastings, Neb. Two months ago, they quietly returned to New England. But the couple never developed a taste for fugitive life, and last week, with Bible in hand, they walked into a Plymouth courtroom to face the consequences of having disobeyed the court. Former Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Brant, who prosecuted the 1978 case, told the judge that had the couple complied with the chemotherapy order, Chad probably would be celebrating his fifth birthday this week...