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...month, they filed suit in Middlesex County Superior Court seeking to recover the $2.7 million in damages he owed as part of the Los Angeles suit. Charging that he might flee Massachusetts if he learned about the new suit, the bank filed an ex parte motion which sought to dock his Harvard paycheck...
Epstein says the Middlesex court gave him a victory by ruling that Manufacturers could not dock his Harvard paycheck. He says the bank could have easily contacted him in New York. But Burdge disagrees, saying the $13,000 annual settlement will ensure the bank gets the money from Epstein even after he leaves Harvard...
Concerns that Pitkin and city councillors said needed to be addressed include the increased use of the hospital's loading dock, which would accompany expansion, and the inconveniences the construction would cause to people who live on Line Street, which is adjacent to the hospital...
...pompous judges, the robed lawyers whispering their deals and making their pleas, the cavernous Piranesian spaces of the anteroom to the Palace of Justice known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, or Room of Wasted Steps, the frightened clients, the stone-faced ushers, the bewildered accused in the dock. It took another 19th century genius, Dickens, to convey in fiction what Daumier gives in line and wash: the sense of the law, not as a means toward fairness or justice but as an enormous and self-feeding machine, abstract and inhuman, operating far beyond the lives it is supposed...
...drawing known variously as For the Defense and The Lyric Advocate, the lawyer's court robes puff out in baroque splendor -- one thinks, perhaps not irrelevantly, of Bernini's bust of Louis XIV -- on the hot air of his rhetoric, as he gestures at the man in the dock, a Jean Valjean whose simian face betrays not the slightest comprehension of what is being said on his behalf. Emphasized by the dark mass of the lawyer's sleeve, the short distance between him and his client is like a space between two worlds...