Federal judge Avern Cohn dies at 97

U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn was a force to be reckoned with.

If lawyers crossed a line in his courtroom, he let them have it.

If reporters wrote something he disagreed with, he let them know it.

When critics called him difficult, he didn't care.

“I had never been a shrinking violet," Cohn said in a 2...READ MORE