Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene looked more like a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly than a civil trial, as San Francisco's Nourse Auditorium last week became the largest courtroom in memory. Dozens of lawyers at 28 counsel tables appeared before California Judge Ira Brown at the start of what could be an 18-month megatrial. At issue is who should bear the cost of asbestos-related lawsuits; 25,000 of them have been filed against some 30 companies, mostly by former workers ill with cancer and lung disease associated with breathing in asbestos fibers. In the San Francisco case, five former asbestos...
...small courtroom in Orange County, Calif., last week, Attorney Allen Millstone pointed sadly to his wheelchair-bound client. In 1983 James Higgins had been a vigorous young man of 18 when he went to Disneyland and took a ride on Space Mountain. As the roller coaster rounded a bend, the youth was suddenly thrown from the rocket car. Through Disney's negligence, argued Millstone, Higgins is a paraplegic. Twenty-four hundred miles away in Florida, in another Orange County courtroom, an equally sad story was unfolding. While Marietta and Harry Goode listened closely, Lawyer Philip Freidin recounted a tragic...
...Today the growers are like a punch-drunk boxer who doesn't know he is past his prime," Chavez told an overflow crowd in Ames Courtroom, which showered him with three standing ovations during the program...
...Americans last week watched at least portions of a five- hour, two-part television movie called The Atlanta Child Murders. The CBS production restaged, in summary form, the trial of Wayne Williams, who was convicted in 1982 of murdering two young blacks after a nine-week proceeding in a courtroom that held, at most, 175 spectators. In law, the verdict of the jurors (later affirmed by the Georgia Supreme Court) was definitive. But in the minds of much of the public, the reality of what happened in Atlanta may more likely be what they saw enacted last week...
Retired Major General Joseph McChristian looked straight at the jury in a Manhattan federal courtroom last week, recalling a day in May 1967. He had brought to General William Westmoreland a carefully researched proposal to virtually double the official estimate of enemy troops in Viet Nam. "I stood in front of his desk, and I handed it to him," McChristian said. "I gave him a little bit of background on what it was. He read it. He looked up at me and he said, 'If I send that cable to Washington, it will create a political bombshell...