Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court, the seven protesters, and an eighth ally picked up later, appeared defiant. Four of those arrested were sentenced to 60 days in jail. The other four face the judge this week, and one of these must answer an added contempt charge for refusing to halt a courtroom harangue...
MOST TEDIOUS SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION: Phil Donahue's move to New York City, Vanessa Williams' future plans, Cristina De Lorean's courtroom wardrobe...
After six weeks and 13 witnesses, lawyers for Israel's former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon last week rested their $50 million libel case against Time Inc. in a Manhattan federal courtroom. Paul Saunders, a lawyer for the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which is defending Time Inc., then stepped to the podium. Calling no defense witnesses, he announced, "Your Honor, we rest." Both sides will offer closing arguments when court reconvenes...
...seven days during the past two weeks, TIME Correspondent David Halevy took the stand in a federal courtroom in Manhattan to recount in vivid detail what he saw and heard-and felt and believed-while he covered the ravaged precincts of Beirut and the troubled ruling circles of Israel before and after the 1982 massacre. Halevy's highly personal account was required because his credibility and state of mind are principal issues in a $50 million libel suit brought by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon against TIME...
...choose unfairly to prove a thesis when it reduced hours of taped interviews to make a 90-min. Viet Nam documentary in which General Westmoreland came off looking bad? In a paneled and marbled federal courtroom in Manhattan, television screens are arrayed so that judge, jury, lawyers and spectators can see replays of what CBS chose and what it disregarded. This unusual behind-the-scenes look at the editing process disturbs the press?reporters think they should be judged by their printed stories, not by their notes; television producers by the footage they used, not by rejected outtakes. Back...