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Washington-based MCI Communications took on giant American Telephone and Telegraph in a courtroom more than a decade ago, charging it with monopoly practices that prevented MCI from competing equally in the domestic long-distance phone market. MCI won that action, along with damages of $600 million that were trebled by federal law to $1.8 billion. But AT&T appealed and won a dismissal of the award. Last week a new trial involving the old adversaries began. Purpose: to set once again the amount of damages AT&T should...
...confrontation last week came on the 17th day of Mehmet Ali Agca's rambling testimony against seven men he says conspired with him to shoot Pope John Paul II in 1981. In his first testimony in the Rome courtroom, Bulgarian Defendant Sergei Antonov flatly denied that he drove gunmen to St. Peter's Square for the assassination attempt. Furthermore, Antonov asserted, he had "never met the person who accuses...
Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter professor of law, moved from the classroom to the courtroom this week to defend Betty Loren-Maltese, a former town president in Illinois with alleged mafia connections...
...husband and parents. Instead, one side usually gives in. Will the Schiavo case change that? Though Schiavo's parents were able to go to great lengths in challenging their son-in-law's decision to let Terri die, legal experts aren't convinced this will lead to many more courtroom disputes. Rather, they expect more Americans will now make their end-of-life wishes more explicit, and evidence of that is already emerging...
...outcome of the trial will turn largely on the skill of the two law teams. Mesereau has paraded his courtroom savvy in cross-examining the accuser's brother and sister, who were forced into contradictions. Sneddon took heat from observers for unloading his heavy artillery in the second week of what is expected to be a four-month siege, with hundreds of witnesses. The suspicion is that the D.A., who has been itching to nail Jackson since an aborted 1993 molestation trial, just couldn't wait to see the star squirm...