Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than ever--as abortion is still under attack from many fronts even as new choices for women arise--that the Supreme Court address the right which it first affirmed over 25 years ago. America's women deserve no less than the full protection of their rights under law...
...defending celebrities in highly publicized cases, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has used the courtroom to make powerful political statements. And he has made just as significant political assertions with his checkbook as well...
...religion or to attack real blasphemy. I leave it to others to argue about the appropriateness of covering a portrait of the Virgin Mary with manure. What horrifies me is the idea that, as Rabelais once put it, to "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"--the concept that one's own desire is all that matters. I dislike this principle, not because I'm a law-and-order conservative but because it's a philosophy of vanity, and because vanity and happiness are incompatible. It's a wile, a deception that promises the world...
Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62 said he signed the petition because he was "convinced of the humanitarian case for stopping the bombing...
...snatching credit-card numbers out of cyberspace. Typically, they tend to be the same old Dumpster divers and mail thieves they've always been, stealing card numbers off receipts and bills and then trying to pass as the cardholder. And if they succeed, who gets hurt? Not consumers. Federal law limits their liability to $50, and many card issuers don't even collect that. It's the merchants who take the hit - standard bank practice when the cards are not present at the point of sale (when they are present, the loss is the bank's). Address verification and other...