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...Arizona, lawyers described her as a painstakingly careful attorney and a judge who ran her courtroom with taut discipline and a clear disdain for lawyers who had not done their homework. "She handled her work with a certain meticulousness, an eye for legal detail," recalled Phoenix Lawyer John Frank. Added John McGowan, another Phoenix attorney: "She's a very conscientious, very careful lawyer." Some defense lawyers, however, found O'Connor's strict demeanor on the bench so intimidating that they dubbed her "the bitch queen...
...relatively lenient sentences, handed down by a five-judge panel, drew harsh reactions beyond the courtroom, since they fell far short of what prosecutors had asked for: life imprisonment for four of the defendants and jail terms of between five and ten years for three others. Heinz Galinski, a Jewish spokesman in West Berlin, described the sentences as "an insult to all victims of the National Socialist regime." Even West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a group of Israelis who had formerly lived in West Germany that he found himself in "complete understanding" with the victims' relatives...
With some 40 antitrust lawsuits pending against it, the giant American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (assets: $125 billion) is fast becoming one of the nation's most familiar courtroom defendants. Charged by competitors with service delays and unfair pricing to drive out competition, Ma Bell has entered into several agreements and is currently appealing a $1.8 billion antitrust award to MCI Communications Corp., which successfully argued that A T & T stalled in supplying telephone hookups needed for MCI to operate a rival long-distance telephone network...
Last week in a New York City courtroom, AT&T was greeted with more bad news. A jury of five women and one man held that the company had unfairly driven Litton Industries out of the telephone equipment business, and awarded $92 million in damages to the California aerospace and electronics conglomerate. If the verdict survives legal challenges, the sum will automatically be tripled under federal antitrust laws to $276 million...
Trying to find at least one encouraging aspect to his company's latest courtroom setback, Edward Goldstein, assistant finance officer for A T & T, pointed out: "We believe the award of $92 million is unjustified, but it is a far cry from the $570 million that Litton had sought. We will appeal the verdict." At Litton's Beverly Hills headquarters, General Counsel Robert Lentz was less circumspect. Said he: "Certainly we are not unhappy. The verdict vindicates our position that the Bell System violated the antitrust laws." Even so, Litton is not expected to return to the rapidly...