Word: courtroom
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...little heed to the basic right of all Americans to read what they want, free from government surveillance,? says Steven Shapiro, legal director of the ACLU. It?s a powerful argument -- and with Barnes & Noble set to join the fight, it all makes for the kind of ding-dong courtroom diversion that Starr really doesn?t need right...
...account is a matter of great dispute, one likely to land the President's case in an Arkansas courtroom in May. But in truth the tangle of laws currently defining sexual harassment is so jumbled that even if everyone could agree on the facts, it's simply impossible to predict the outcome of a case like Jones v. Clinton. Just 25 years ago, sexual harassment was considered a radical-fringe by-product of feminist theory. Today it's embedded in multiple Supreme Court decisions (three more are expected before July), thousands of corporate policies and a host of lower-court...
...Hispanic and two women (both officers)--believed McKinney; it was that the jury didn't believe the six women who, unknown to one another, had come forward to tell similar stories about crude come-ons from the Army's senior soldier. As the verdicts were read in an Army courtroom at Fort Belvoir, just south of Washington, five of the six sat listening in disbelief, some in tears, others stone-faced. Sergeant Major Brenda Hoster, McKinney's former public affairs aide (now retired), who was the first to come forward and who testified that McKinney propositioned her in her hotel...
...recognize the U.S. justice system. The system has been quick to return the sentiment. As opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of six Freemen for abetting other Freemen in their 1996 standoff with the FBI, four of them watched on TV from a holding cell, banished from the courtroom Monday for shouting and cursing. Two sat at the defense table but also refused to participate as their court-appointed lawyers began their opening statements...
...tilting strongly in favor of the government. In 1996 an appeals court reversed a decision of hers and, after citing her hostility to the defendant's lawyer, took the rare step of ordering that a different judge take over the case. She is also known for a testy courtroom manner. Last Friday she threatened to jail Lewinsky lawyer William Ginsburg if he didn't do a better job of holding his tongue...