Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Young is currently presiding over Smoki Bacon's $4 million lawsuit against Kemper Insurance Co., a Suffolk County civil case being tried in the Law School's Ames Courtroom for students' observation
...official conduct of government figures threatens to strike at the core of what the Supreme Court sought to preserve in New York Times vs. Sullivan: a hearty and robust debate on issues of public importance. Many Americans may relish the prospect of seeing journalists on the defensive in a courtroom. But ultimately they may decide that the possible consequences--a less vigilant press, a dimmer light cast on critical issues--are not worth that spectacle...
...four Polish secret policemen for the abduction of Father Jerzy Popieluszko remains subdued. Poles have grown accustomed to switching on the state-controlled radio broadcast at 10:30 every night and listening to the latest installment of death and deception as defense attorneys and prosecutors alike in Torun's Courtroom 40 continue to tolerate a flood of contradictions from the witness stand. Perhaps to divert attention from Torun, early last week Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski paid an unprecedented visit to the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, where the banned trade union Solidarity had its roots. There he talked with workers about high...
Outside the courtroom in lower Manhattan, a smiling Sharon told reporters, "I am pleased that we won on this point." His attorney, Milton Gould, added, "I'm glad we're not going to get beaten on etymology." Moments later TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave said he felt that the jurors had "misread" the disputed paragraph and insisted once again that the passage in no way accused Sharon of responsibility for the massacre. The passage simply echoed the findings of the Kahan report, Cave said. He defended the magazine's use of confidential sources in seeking information about the events leading...
...courtroom studded with ten television monitors, Burt tried to build his case by contrasting the documentary as it was aired with CBS's outtakes, the portions of filmed interviews that were cut from the program. For example, in the documentary, Wallace asks Westmoreland, "Was President Johnson a difficult man to feed bad news about the war?" Westmoreland's answer strongly implies that the general had a motive for being less than frank with the President: "Well, Mike, you know as well as I do that people in senior positions love good news. Politicians or leaders in countries are inclined...