Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the one-hour courtroom session, attention was fastened upon the questions posed by the pivotal Reagan-appointed Justices: Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor. Their inquiries to lawyers on both sides ranged far from the Missouri law restricting abortion to the larger question of where to draw the borders of privacy rights. Do these rights encompass abortion? If not, is contraception excluded too? As for the four Justices who regularly support Roe, only John Paul Stevens took an active part in the proceedings. Harry Blackmun, who wrote the landmark opinion, sat silently throughout...
...Law and Order Dept: The jig is up for Oliver North. The former Marine Corps colonel who trampled on the Constitution in the name of democracy is finally getting his just desserts. A federal court jury found North guilty on three of the 12 counts against him, including aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress, accepting an illegal gratuity and destroying and falsifying government documents. He faces up to 10 years in prison and $750,000 in fines...
...Yalie: When Ice Hockey Coach Bill Cleary '56 and team Captain Lane MacDonald '88-'89 presented President Bush--Yale Class of '48--with a Harvard Hockey sweatsuit and t-shirt Wednesday, the president didn't even wince. And when Cleary told Bush that his brother-in-law is former Democratic Party Chair Paul G. Kirk '66, the Republican president simply laughed. According to members of the national championship team, the chief executive and former Harvard-basher was "pleasant and hospitable" throughout the team's visit to the White House. As Cleary said, he was very cordial...
...Wolff instigated a member of the Law School faculty to write a letter on official Law School stationery. His group instigated the letter written by Professor [of Law Derrick A.] Bell, and gave it the distinct appearance of writing it as an officially sanctioned letter. I want to know why Wolff got away with that...
...That's the issue that will be the big issue over the next couple of years," says Professor of Law Lance M. Liebman, who heads the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...