Word: voir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real cause is overpayment of small claims. But the insurers clearly have a First Amendment right to influence legislation." Adds University of Illinois Professor Jeffrey O'Connell: "A court clampdown on advertising is a raw, brutal way of handling the problem. Plaintiffs' lawyers are adequately protected by voir dire [jury selection] procedure." Most analysts doubt the trial lawyers will succeed in muffling the insurers but see the lawyers' maneuvers as effective nonetheless. Says The Research Group's Gingerich: "The insurance companies and trade associations will have to be much more careful in representing the nature...
When it was time to go, she turned and beamed at the class. "Bonjour, ca va, au 'voir." She spoiled the dramatic exit, though, when she poked her head back in the door and grinned and waved. "So long, Crabby," she said...
Crucial Objection. The jury never even knew Clark had arrived to testify. Before they could file into the courtroom, Judge Hoffman excluded them so that Clark could be examined on voir dire, a procedure that permits a judge to determine the admissibility of a potential witness's testimony before he takes the stand. In the examination that followed, Hoffman sustained the Government's objections and refused to let Clark say what his answers would be to 14 of the 38 questions that Kunstler posed. Then the judge sustained the most crucial objection. Accepting the prosecutor's argument...