gavel

It's not just a bang of the gavel and "Next case!

Ahem, your honor, please use the gavel to make it official.

How can a judge look himself in the mirror knowing the gavel that came down so unmercifully was his own?

Even more so writing headers like "Responses to the scandal" and dropping in a stock photo of a gavel.

It sounds like machine learning will help unmask patent trolls, but unless you give that machine a gavel I doubt it'll make any difference.

They need to be made an example of so the next time anyone gets a bright idea about selling their badge or gavel they go "Oh no way, not gonna do it".

Given that the entire trial was televised gavel-to-gavel, how do the jurors know a lot more about the details than anyone else?

If the mere utterance of words can drive people to punish fellow beings to any extent, then it is only a matter time before they are stricken with their own gavel

After months of dedicated work, the clinic students deserved a gavel-banging judicial decision in their favor.

Aereo innovated against legal boundaries, not really technological ones, and the gavel falling on the wrong side was always a distinct possibility.

If the EU really wants to start getting into issues that deal with fundamental sovereignty as opposed to the environment or labor and capital flows, I can think of a number of countries that would be out before the gavel even hit the block.