Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should Congress have held no hearings until Walsh had his cases all set? Arthur Liman, the chief Senate committee lawyer, does not think so. "If Congress had not given immunity, the country would still be totally in the dark about what happened," he says. Ironically, while the defendants protested the hearings as unfair, their hours on TV may eventually set them free...
...requires riders to have a landowner's permission to ride the river. The catch is that much of the Black River is still unposted, and the law has failed to halt the nightmare. "These things destroy the ecology of the river," says Larry Koeler, a Centerville lawyer, of the ATVs. "Some drivers drain their crankcases in the water. And if you're running a machine with oil and gas through the water, some of that gets in the river...
...Dalton's lawyer, Gertner, said if it were up to her the law professor's case would be in court immediately. But Dalton, who was unavailable for comment, has to face the possibilities of a long and draining legal battle against Harvard that could, as in Jackson's case, take nearly a decade to resolve...
Professor of Sociology Theda R. Skocpol--who was initially denied tenure but was reinstated after she and her lawyer, Gertner, went through Harvard's internal grievance procedures--said "there are no holds barred" when a tenure discrimination case comes to court. She said that in a trial setting, the University will use all of its resourses to win the case...
...Ryan, Harvard's lawyer in the Jackson case as well as a number of other University discrimination cases, said that Harvard considers such complaints very carefully and that they are resolved internally if they are found to have merit...