Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle never reaches its climax, for as soon as the bare breasts of Lois LaRue have disappeared from the courtroom screen, we are launched into Snow's private life and his problems with a wife who walks out because he can't remember the color of the wallpaper in the living room. By this time you will have thought of several more convincing reasons to leave Snow, but director Richard Neame wisely does not dwell on these, bustling back to Capitol Hill, where Snow (rarely one to sulk) is passionately trying to convince Loomis and the rest of the gang...
...were not as lucky. They received three-to-five year terms in the state penitentiary (although all but six months of their terms will be suspended) after being convicted of raping a nurse after a Boston party last year. The sentences sparked controversy, the doctors contending in a tearful courtroom scene that their lives had already been destroyed, and many critics protesting that the terms were too light. The doctors--no longer employed by the University--are appealing, and one juror held a bizarre news conference a few weeks after the verdict to recant her vote. One of the doctors...
Thomas Paxman, attorney for the Waltham Hospital, refused comment on the incident yesterday, saying, "We feel the proper forum to deal with these charges is the courtroom...
...coalition is even confident of victory in the upcoming appeals of the EPA and DEQE decisions, although Ploss believes that "When you enter the courtroom, you enter Harvard's den." The coalition's lawyers contend that MATEP is not entitled to the status of a non-profit health or educational institution granted it by the EPA. "They created MATEP as a for-profit institution and now they wish to disregard that and have the plant considered part of Harvard. It's clear from the law that you can't," says Jerome Aaron, the attorney who will represent Mission Hill...
Little seems to have changed between Carothers' decision and now. Like last September, Harvard will enter the courtroom in October with the support of a major regulatory agency. In fact, this time the agency--the EPA--will do most of the fighting, as it defends the legitimacy of its own decision. Harvard will merely be "holding up their hands," a University lawyer says...