All had been purchased with credit cards, and I was unable to pay a single one of them, which is why I was sitting in the office of an Upper West Side lawyer, beginning bankruptcy proceedings.
To show his soft side, lawyer Robert Fraiss showed a clip from a Crocodile Dundee movie sequel, in which Tyson has a cameo role as himself, teaching a child how to meditate.
On the defense side, lawyers worked to humanize Mr. Dixon, a father himself.
On the opposing side, lawyers for the Justice Department asked District Judge George Daniels to dismiss the lawsuit.
But when a reasonable argument could be made on the other side, lawyers said, the president should still comply until the courts rendered a definitive verdict.
So, to be on the safe side, lawyers adopted the practice of pleading that the defendant was indebted for the price of goods sold and delivered, for money lent, for work and services performed, etc.
Usually, allegations are made, "the other side lawyers up and it gets resolved," she said, "without any kind of filing," especially when there's the reputation of a "high-level person" or a company's brand at stake.
The judge's highly ambiguous interpretation of what might have been today's hard 5 p.m. deadline for counties to submit their vote was just substantial enough to be useful to each side, lawyers said.
On the other side, lawyers with Mr. Morsi's Freedom and Justice Party and other advocates of a stronger conviction said they hoped that in a retrial, the prosecutors would take advantage of the findings of a presidential fact-finding commission looking into the protesters' deaths.
On the other side, lawyers for the seven defendants call the allegations "absurd," "impossible," and "fantasy" and compare the situation to the Salem witch trials of three centuries ago, saying that their clients and the people convicted in Salem of being witches are innocent victims falsely accused on the basis of testimony by youths and children.
On the Republican side, lawyers for state Sen. Dan Kapanke (R) have filed a complaint challenging the recall petition targeting the legislator, arguing it should be thrown out because of missing paperwork.
