The new courthouse will have a library, public information desk and concession stand.
Sarah de Bunsen, head of the public cash desk, says that once someone came in with a wheelie suitcase packed with £400,000 of notes that were no longer legal tender, and wanted the cash back.
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Living frugally in immigrant Brooklyn, the Wolfes did a year of course work at New York University Law School and got jobs at the Socialist Rand School, just off Union Square -- Ella teaching English to foreigners, Bert manning the public-relations desk.
As I have learned at the public editor's desk, that's the kind of stretch that some readers are quick to spot.
A three-strikes case, by contrast, is just one more file in the stack on a public defender's desk and a judge's docket.
But there's more: a day after Omnicare made its offer public, the trading desk at Goldman Sachs made another surprising bet.
The submissions are being read aloud by members of the public at a desk on a small platform in the gallery, where visitors are able to rifle through them until the show closes at the end of this month.
Back from an intentionally unplugged vacation – where I got my news mostly through the print editions of newspapers and an occasional glance at the Twitter feed on my phone – I'm catching up with some of the issues that crossed the public editor's desk in the past week.
