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Your story on Federal Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, who will play a key role in shaping Kenneth Starr's investigation [NATION, March 16], said she "has acquired a reputation for tilting strongly in favor of the government." That statement is questionable, if not outright nonsense. You overlooked a volatile case, Murphy v. National Security Agency, in which Judge Johnson courageously ruled against the government and in my favor...
...story is told of the time Martin Luther King's widow Coretta Scott King was waiting to testify in a criminal case before Judge Norma Holloway Johnson. The judge sent a U.S. marshal to bring Mrs. King into the courtroom, but he returned alone, saying the civil rights matriarch needed another 10 minutes to prepare herself. Johnson, jabbing her finger in the air, responded quickly: "Martin, I'd give another 10 minutes. Her, I want here right...
...Lindsey took a pass on a few too many questions while on the stand, Starr's prosecutors filed a motion to compel further testimony. Apparently unable to stomach that possibility, the White House has now locked arms with Starr in a legal skydive that will start soon in Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's chambers -- and probably end in the Supreme Court...
...days on the stand before Ken Starr's grand jury, Bruce Lindsey has been doing most of his talking in judge's chambers. Lawyers on both sides are haggling with U.S. District Judge Norma Hollaway Johnson over what questions Lindsey has to answer. "It's a dance," says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief J.F.O. McAllister. "The White House people say 'We don't want you to ask him that,' and Starr's side says, 'Well, what if we do?' And then the White House threatens to invoke executive privilege...
SETTLEMENT REACHED. Between the TOBACCO INDUSTRY and NORMA BROIN, 42, lead plaintiff in the $5 billion class action filed on behalf of 60,000 flight attendants seeking damages for secondhand-smoke-related health problems; in Miami. Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Lorillard agreed to pay $300 million to set up a research foundation on cancer...