Word: hamper
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Prosecutors are using one new ploy to hamper gangsters' ability to retain legal talent. They are invoking the forfeiture provisions of drug and racketeering laws to seize any attorney fees paid with illgotten gains. In a Colorado case last month, a federal judge disallowed such seizures, saying they violate a defendant's right to the legal representation of his choice. But last week in New York, another federal judge allowed prosecutors to subpoena information about the source of the fee paid to a lawyer in a narcotics case. Said Judge David Edelstein: "In the same manner that a defendant cannot...
South African law will also severely hamper any attempts at information gathering and "intensive dialogue." The 1978 Protection of Business Act, passed in response to the Sullivan Principles, "restricts the enforcement in the Republic of certain foreign judgements, orders, directions, arbitration, awards, and letters of request; (and prohibits) the furnishing of information relating to businesses in compliance with foreign orders, directions and letters of request...
...would also dissolve the Export-Import Bank, which helps finance foreign trade by U.S. corporations. The Administration wants the private financial community, not the taxpayer, to help companies like General Electric, Bechtel Group and Westinghouse finance their sales abroad. The ^ financial community contends that the end of ExportImport would hamper international traders who are struggling against a strong dollar, subsidized foreign competition, and a growing U.S. trade deficit...
...repercussions of the victory have jolted handgun control activists into the daring shift toward local politics, a change that may save their cause. It is, however, not without its problems. At best, the Coalition's campaign for local legislation will mean fewer handgun-related killings; at worst, it will hamper the Coalition's national strategy and delay further the resolution of the issue by providing a target for what has proven to be a lethal sting--the counterattack of the NRA and other pro-gun groups...
...that belong to Congress, the Executive Branch and to the states." A Roman Catholic, Scalia is personally opposed to abortion. Both Scalia, who taught at the University of Chicago, and Bork, who went there as a student, are influenced by the "Chicago School" view that the Government should not hamper the free market...