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...When you get to your seat in this beautiful courtroom, there is a handmade goose quill pen waiting for you at your seat. Then the clerk comes out and announces the Justices, who come in through a velvet curtain. The courtroom was packed; the pressroom was packed. Every seat was filled...
...they say, you must look into his eyes. While Italy last week got its first good glimpse of Mafia turncoat Antonino Giuffrè, his deep dark eyes and sunken facial features were kept hidden from view. During his live video testimony, broadcast on Tuesday in a Palermo courtroom, the 57-year-old former top lieutenant of Cosa Nostra - the Sicilian Mafia - offered sometimes electrifying allegations in the Mafia-association trial of Senator Marcello Dell'Utri, a close political ally and business partner of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. But throughout the four hours of questioning, Giuffrè sat with his back...
...also be one of the shrewdest. After assuming control of her husband Teddy Wang's estate a decade ago, she transformed his property development company, the Chinachem Group, into a multi-billion dollar behemoth. But the good times may be coming to an end. After a 171-day courtroom inheritance battle, a Hong Kong judge ruled on Nov. 21 that Nina Wang had "probably" forged her husband's will. The judge awarded Teddy Wang's estimated $128 million estate to his 90-year-old father, Wang Din-shin. The decision is the latest twist in a case that dates back...
...limit on wages subject to the tax to €5,100 from the current €4,600. Ultimately, the Greens went along but 18 of them protested that the raise sends the "wrong message." Maybe their next move will be to release their own protest song. REPARATIONS Apartheid's Courtroom Drama Companies that thought they had seen the end of lawsuits stemming from the horrors of the 20th century had better think again. Last week lawyers representing over 33,000 South Africans sued 22 multinational companies, including Barclays, DaimlerChrysler and IBM, for dealing with South Africa's apartheid regime after...
...guarantees citizens an impartial jury of their peers, and while it’s a little troubling to learn that our peers find Regis Philbin really funny (something the Framers can’t have anticipated), and disappointing to learn just how far district court is removed from celluloid courtroom drama, it is also reassuring to learn that the justice system requires us to spend a morning in a narrow room stocked with old magazines more frequently than it requires us to be moral giants...