Word: courtroom
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...Stewart Living Omnimedia, the company she founded, will depend on a very different kind of corporate chemistry now that Stewart has been sentenced to serve prison time for conspiracy and obstruction after lying to federal investigators about a stock trade. Standing before Judge Miriam Cedarbaum last week in a courtroom in lower Manhattan, Stewart's voice faltered as she asked for leniency. "My hopes that my life will not be completely destroyed lie entirely in your competent and experienced and merciful hands," she said. Cedarbaum gave her the mildest sentence possible under federal guidelines: five months in a minimum-security...
...Father’s Day, after all—and I decided to be more open to the possibility of serving on a jury. Sure enough, after a day and a half of waiting at the courthouse I was called in for a domestic abuse panel. The courtroom, the judge in his robes, the defendant consulting with his lawyer, even the bailiffs with their not-so-inconspicuous weapons, awed me. “I should do this,” I thought...
Only lately, however, has Adami started to find such charges funny. In May, Miller took the battle with Budweiser from the store shelves to a courtroom, seeking an injunction to stop Anheuser and its distributors from what it claimed were false and deceptive marketing practices, including the defacing of Miller products in stores with pro-Budweiser stickers. A federal court ordered Anheuser to pull liquor-store posters that said Miller is owned by South African Breweries--its parent, SABMiller, is now headquartered in London. But the judge allowed the continued airing of TV ads declaring that Miller is South African...
...evidence may have "gone up in smoke," says Salem Chalabi, a former New York City corporate attorney who leads the tribunal. Prosecutors may tap Saddam's former henchmen to build their case, say Iraqi officials. Eleven such loyalists had charges read to them at the makeshift U.S. military courtroom. Some are ready to cut deals, hoping to avoid the firing squad by testifying against their old boss. Isolated in his cell, Saddam has had ample time to mull over that possibility. "He's demoralized," Chalabi claims. "He thinks others are starting to talk...
DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who adeptly steered the proceedings in former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; of a brain tumor; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February owing to grave health, after two years of regular courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...