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What this portends, in practical terms, is a hearing within the next several months in Arkansas's Pulaski County courtroom, where a circuit judge will be assigned to rule on the fate of the President's law license. Clinton has never suggested that he would ever again practice law, so a disbarment proceeding would be a purely antiseptic exercise. (And there's something exquisitely postmodern, not to say Clintonian, about punishing someone by not allowing him to do what he didn't want to do anyway.) No matter. In court the President and his lawyers will be forced to argue...
...odds with the real world the bankruptcy scene imagined by Congress and the lending industry is, spend a moment with the people who have a street-level view of the system. Steven Friedman, a bankruptcy judge in West Palm Beach, Fla., describes the people who pass through his courtroom as "average citizens who have worked hard to obtain a decent standard of living and, through unfortunate circumstances such as medical problems or financial or job loss, are down on their luck." He adds, "The instances of abuse, where people who file bankruptcy are attempting to defraud their creditors...
Judge J. L. Edmondson knew a lot of emotions rested on the Elian Gonzalez appeal hearing, so before donning his robe he warned the crowd gathered inside the Atlanta courtroom of two things: No outbursts of emotion would be tolerated; and the audience shouldn't impute opinions from the judges' questions, since justices often play devil's advocate when hearing an appeal. Still, there was little surprise that the Miami family appeared a little muted after the 90 minutes of oral argument. "I think they expected that their argument that a six-year-old can seek political asylum would have...
...Monday night the debate came to Harvard as Charles Fried, former U.S. Solicitor General and Harvard Law School professor, and Catharine A. MacKinnon, a professor of law at the University of Michigan squared off on the VAWA inside a packed Ames Courtroom. Though the evening's preferred language was esoteric legalese, the major arguments came through loud and clear. Fried described a slippery-slope scenario, whereby the precedent set by VAWA would allow Congress to circumvent state sovereignty indiscriminately. MacKinnon dismissed these concerns out-of-hand, postulating that civil suits remedy flaws in state legal systems that have allowed gender...
...Lockerbie have told a Scottish court they're not responsible for the atrocity - and even if Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima are convicted, few observers and family members of the victims believe that the real author of the crime is in the specially constructed courtroom in the Netherlands. Twelve years after the bombing that killed 270 people (189 of them Americans), the trial finally got under way Wednesday with the men entering a not guilty plea, and offering a list of individuals connected with various Palestinian splinter groups as suspects. But the focus...