But I didn't start making a living as a writer until I was 48 years old. the courthouse . And she said that I got the description of the bombing absolutely right.
but not against me, a trans man, competing in sports-- the reason that they will say is because of, quote, biological advantages. Go lobby at the courthouse and say, hey, this bill should not be passed.
He was the very first person that we filmed. We started inside the courthouse in the courtroom. That's where we started filming.
You know? And I smiled about that. I went to the courthouse right there.
but to the left were about 400 or 500 blacks on the lawn of the federal building, which was opposite the courthouse . So here we were in the middle of it all, stopped by the sheriff's deputies.
Our kids go to the federal courthouse in front of Justice Breyer in one case, or in front of state and federal judges at this amazing courthouse . And they're wearing their Sunday best clothes.
Bill Landay: Thank you. We've already been chatting before so we'll just continue chatting, I guess. I was a D.A. in Middlesex and spent most of that time right down the road at the courthouse here in Cambridge. So it's very funny to be here because Kendall Square for most of my life was a ruin. It was awful. There was a lot of these blocks had just be razed, and they were empty lots and they sat there for decades like that.
He said, well, let me tell you, I oversee a district with five counties. I have five courthouses . He said, I have five lawyers.
And this has always troubled me enormously, because I remember all of this. as people walk in to this courthouse .
We went up a very grim and dark elevator. When we got to the courthouse level, we had to walk past some bullpens. And when we went past the bullpens, they were populated with a bunch of individuals who were awaiting trial who had just been arrested
All he was getting was a series of rejections, one after the other. Think about cannonballs on a courthouse lawn.
who had argued the case in Massachusetts on speaker phone. She was down at the courthouse , and she was leafing through the opinion, and she said it's a full win. And I was immediately getting out of my taxi, I was wired up, whisked into the studio,
And a lot of kids might do a little mock trial in the classroom where they argue about something. Our kids go to the federal courthouse in front of Justice Breyer in one case, or in front of state and federal judges at this amazing courthouse .
Workers were imported from Germany and Scotland to work in the glass factories. And the town grew up around them and the Middlesex county courthouse . Whereas the old village, by this time, was becoming known as Old Cambridge-- is a simple, a quiet, more or less settled
And now, they're being lost. And they're being auctioned off in the courthouse . If someone is buying the homes in the auction, the buyer goes to the auction and bids.
And so I was so grateful and learned a lot from him. Joe told the story of what happened at the courthouse , but as we got ready to leave, one of the deputies came over and he said, Joe.
I didn't wanna know, although we asked religious question, you know, do you believe in God, do you pray? So I spent a fair amount of time in courthouses and jails interviewing these individuals to find out why they don't respond to punishments.
place. Like you you go to the the courthouse or you take a deposition in an office building if you're an attorney, or you have to go to a job
You know? And I smiled about that. Can you tell the audience about your experience sitting in the LA courthouse watching arraignment after arraignment and how that impacted you?
When we did, three songs were being sung. We had sung "America the Beautiful" as part of our witness at the courthouse steps. Can you guess what the guys were singing?
There's a trolley. There's a courthouse .
virtue of that swipe of my pen you will have to go to a courthouse and stand in line; you will have to come out of pocket and hire an attorney; you may get arrested for a few hours;
We're joined now by our North America technology correspondent Lily Jamali who is outside of the courthouse there.
And so while they were fighting at war, the county sold their land on the courthouse steps, basically, through a tax sale.
On the third day, he has a seizure in the courthouse .
to East Marshall, Texas, or wherever that infamous courthouse is that does all the patent troll cases in the United States.
and if the auction produced no bitters he would walk down his stairs go to the courthouse steps and buy the farm for
Nothing was happening. They looked at us and wondered who we were and why we were there until we got to the corner of Broad Street and Alabama, where we had to turn to go one block to the courthouse , which was our destination. And when we turned the corner, we could see in the street-- Lauderdale, there-- in front of the courthouse about 300,
and sisters who have been struggling here for two months to simply be able to vote. And we came to support them and we'd like to move forward to the steps of the courthouse . And at that point, we had no idea what was going to happen.
served its purpose. I meet a friend near the courthouse .
And this has always troubled me enormously, because I remember all of this. I remember my family just hovering over me going to court, taking a train, and getting out on Canal Street and walking to the courthouse
But at that point, if it doesn't work, then the court goes for an auction. We're in Manhattan. In all five boroughs in New York City, there is an auction every single week in a courthouse . In Brooklyn, it's on Adams Street.
Street and Alabama, where we had to turn to go one block to the courthouse , which was our destination. And when we turned the corner, we could see in the street-- Lauderdale, there-- in front of the courthouse about 300, 400 white men with pipes and clubs and bats.
You could only attempt to register to vote on the first and third Mondays of each month, and you had to go down to the courthouse .
got this new tax levy--this was almost a hundred years before the revolution--and they didn't like it. Ipswich was one of the most prosperous towns. They had the only other courthouse
one Robert E. Lee, has unconditionally surrendered today, Appomattox Courthouse , Virginia. What's Lincoln's next thought?
But what's important, the take away for this is, it is a ticket to a courthouse , but it is not a winning ticket.
You're too late, a woman tells me, on the first floor of the courthouse . It's one of the producers from 20/20.
This building that we are in is a piece of real estate. Right? The parking lot, the school building, courthouses , houses that you live in, it's real estate. And real estate has always been around.