Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus attorneys seemed hardly to care what happened to the motions. Within minutes after young, nervous Faubus Lawyer Kay Matthews began a rambling argument for the disqualification motion, Little Rock School Superintendent Virgil Blossom became the first-but by no ' means the last-spectator to fall sound asleep. Again, while addressing himself to another motion, Faubus Lawyer Walter Pope said his whole argument was in his brief, and someone had once told him that judges could read. Smiled Ronald Davies: "Yes, I am one of the judges who can read." Moments later the Faubusinspired motions were quietly and firmly...
BRISK, somber-eyed little (5 ft. 1 in., 140 Ibs.) Ronald Davies, North Dakota lawyer, took his oath as a U.S. District Judge in Fargo on Aug. 16, 1955, then turned to well-wishers with one of the shortest induction speeches on record: "I hope that I will have the courage to meet and discharge the responsibilities of my office." Last week, plucked 870 miles from Fargo and set down in Little Rock by the impersonal workings of justice, Ronald Davies fulfilled his hopes...
...Lawyer's Choice
...career officer in the U.S. Air Force, went on trial before a general court martial. The charge against him: violation of Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by attempting to communicate national-defense information to a foreign power. French pleaded not guilty, listened while a military lawyer pleaded that he had been a good Air Force officer, had no Communist affiliations or beliefs. But at the end of the four-day trial. Captain George French's biggest gamble went against him. The court martial of three generals, two colonels, two lieutenant colonels, ordered him dishonorably discharged...
...pretrial sparring that kept the Chicago trial from a final showdown for years, RCA in 1954 hired Lawyer Adlai Stevenson to get an injunction against U.S. District Judge Michael Igoe on the charge that he was biased. Stevenson lost in the U.S. Supreme Court. Igoe finally set the trial for last week. By that time Zenith had spent $2,000,000 on legal fees and gathering evidence and RCA $5,000,000. But the case did not come to trial, apparently because Zenith had gathered too much legal ammunition to fire...