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...pages, the opening takes a while) Harry is tried before the Wizengamot—the Wizard High Court—which is considering expelling him from Hogwarts on trumped up charges. I’m guessing the Ad Board isn’t located in a dungeon-courtroom ten floors below University Hall, but its proceedings are cloaked in secrecy, just like the Wizengamot’s. Like evildoers in Cambridge, Harry stands with one advocate before a panel of various high-ranking wizards, who vote on whether to kick him out or not. Luckily the secretive proceedings...
...addition to supervising the University’s courtroom litigation—which is usually handled by outside firms—the 12 lawyer office provides legal advice across the University, from the President’s office down to student groups drawing up contracts...
...black man accused of raping a white woman--a perilous assignment in an Alabama town in the 1930s. He argues his case brilliantly, demolishes the opposition, convinces each member of the movie audience...and loses. But Atticus has shown courage in the fight. As he leaves the courtroom in defeat, a black preacher attending the trial whispers a command to Atticus' 6-year-old daughter. "Miss Jean Louise, stand up," he tells the girl. "Your father's passin...
...York City. Settlement talks had failed, and her lawyers' efforts to win an audience with Justice Department officials in Washington had gone nowhere. In the end, the Financial Times reported, Stewart, 61, would not agree to any plea that required jail time. She walked into the downtown Manhattan courtroom to be charged, as her daughter Alexis, 37, waited quietly on a bench in the back. The nine-count indictment alleges that Stewart altered evidence that she traded on inside information about the biotech company ImClone Systems, conspired with her stockbroker to lie to federal officials investigating the trade and defrauded...
...underway in order to keep the funding would have been preferable to capitulating without a fight. Though a legal challenge may not have ultimately succeeded, by declining to appeal the Air Force’s decision, the law school missed an opportunity to defend its values in the courtroom...