Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because of the conservative shift in the Supreme Court, liberals are beginning to use out-of-court settlements as an alternative to losing cases dealing with constitutional issues...
After eight years of Ronald Reagan, the Court now consistently leans to the right on issues like abortion, affirmative action and pay equity. As a result, those who espouse a liberal view are likely to be defeated if their case ever makes it to the high court...
While out-of-court settlements may seem a second-rate solution to issues as important as constitutional ones, liberals should accept this new strategy as the only way to preserve vital rights, at least until the composition of the Supreme Court changes again...
...Illinois this week, parties in a case to be heard by the Supreme Court in December are attempting to negotiate a solution to their disagreement. The case centers around state regulations that require abortion clinics to meet strict and expensive standards...
...choice must compromise. The movement is willing to settle because it wants to keep the decision out of the hands of Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court's most outspoken foe of abortion. Scalia criticized the majority opinion in this summer's Webster case for not going far enough in overturning Roe v. Wade, which first recognized a constitutional right to abortion...