Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spectators rose as the black-robed chief justice and his two associates swept into the courtroom last night to rule whether the Divine Light Institute, a school practicing racial discrimination for religious reasons, should be granted tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service...
Although such a scene could occur in a real session of the United States Supreme Court. Last night's drama was actually a semifinal round of the 68th Ames Moot Court Competition, which pits two teams of second-year Law School students against one another in a test of courtroom skills...
Team members said yesterday that they had been training for the competition since the beginning of February by doing research, practicing courtroom techniques and rehearsing with videotape machines...
...plant's operation now--a final appeal will be heard sometime this year but will almost certainly bring no change. So the coalition is understandably depleted. But even the slightest indication that health hazards are likely would unleash louder community furor than ever. The area would again be the courtroom, but the coalition would be fighting for lives, not maneuvering for delays. Suggestions of health dangers would also probably call to action the many national and international health groups with which NOMATEP has always been loosely connected, but which never lent it tangible political support...
Gold carpeting was hastily installed in the courtroom, and high-backed red velvet chairs were provided for the defendants, lawyers and judges. It was a suit able setting for a momentous trial. In the dock were 32 top-ranking officers and one civilian accused of trying to overthrow the Spanish government by forcibly taking over the Cortes (parliament). In a sense, the entire military is on trial - and so is Spain's fledgling democracy...