Judge Rejects Silverstein Plea To Return

Attorneys for World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein implored U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mukasey last week to let Mr. Silverstein back into the courtroom to attend his $7 billion insurance trial, but their request fell on deaf ears.

Last week, Floyd Abrams, one of Mr. Silverstein's lawyers and a high-profile First Amendment advocate, pleaded with Judge Mukasey and asked whether he could make "any additional determination," to which the judge replied that he didn't know "if any additional determination was called for."

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