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...former Tyco executives entered the courtroom Monday with one-time WorldCom Chairman Bernard Ebbers already having been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled his company (which has emerged from bankruptcy as MCI) and Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas having been sentenced to 15 years in prison for looting and fraud at his company. His son and former finance chief, Timothy Rigas, got 20 years...
...courtroom packed with a veritable who’s who of the legal and academic communities, hundreds united in a day-long celebration of the opening of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, a new center dedicated to carrying forth the legacy of Houston by “identifying and defining the civil rights agenda for the coming generation...
...speech to the crowd gathered at Ames Courtroom, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer postulated that the institute could serve as a “catalyst” between politicians and school administrators to combat inequalities that still exist in U.S. school districts...
...thunderstorms shook the walls of the courtroom, many made reference to what they call the newest example of racism: Hurricane Katrina. In his speech, Ogletree showed two recent photographs and captions: one which showed a white male in water “finding bread and soda” from a grocery store, another depicting a black male in water “looting a grocery store...
...scientific account of creation, there remained to the trial nothing but the bald testimony of two schoolboys that Scopes had "taught Evolution." Though the trial lasted a fortnight, costing over $25,000,? the schoolboys' testimony was practically all the farmer-jurors were permitted to hear in the courtroom. It alone constituted the basis for their verdict of "Guilty...