Word: lawyerly
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...informant in a case against a known pedophile. Professor John Myers, a child-abuse expert at the McGeorge School of Law, explains that using young victims for telephone undercover work in this kind of case is a common practice. However, according to Andrew Vachss, a New York City lawyer with expertise in child sex crimes, investigators could have dug up entire on-line conversations between Manzie and his abuser and got good evidence with a search warrant against Simmons. Because of the documented motel visits, he says, prosecutors were not desperately in need of corroborating information to charge twice-convicted...
...Mark Thomann, who worked for the D.N.C. as a fund raiser in 1996, has told TIME that he was directed by the party's finance chief to deliver to the Carey team $100,000 from a foreign donor and that he was pressured to follow through by a Teamster lawyer sent his way by D.N.C. officials in Washington. Thomann's story, told to federal prosecutors as well as to Senate investigators, is the most solid evidence yet that party officials actively participated in the scheme before it went bust...
Oblivious to these larger machinations, Thomann went about his business and quickly determined that Vasquez was an employer and thus barred from giving to the union campaign. He informed Sullivan that the idea wouldn't fly, but he had a harder time breaking the news to a Teamster lawyer named Nathaniel Charny, who, just as Sullivan had predicted, had tracked Thomann down by phone a few days earlier and pressured him for the money, Thomann says. In the return call, Charny (who declined comment) was upset that the D.N.C. official had given up so easily, and suggested that Vasquez...
...legal? The critical distinction that the courts have made is the idea of "bona fide occupational qualification." For example, directors can specify women to play women's parts in plays or movies, and positions as guards in high-security prisons can preclude women. Notes Doug Huron, a leading labor lawyer in Washington: "Courts have made very few exceptions in sex-discrimination cases, but the Hooters settlement would appear...
...POLANSKI, who these days may be more celebrated as a fugitive from the U.S. justice system than as a director, opened his musical version of Dance of the Vampires in Vienna last week. But in America a drama of a different sort unfolded after it emerged that Polanski's lawyer had had yet another meeting with the Los Angeles D.A.'s office, sparking a rumor that he was cutting a deal to allow the director of Chinatown to return to America. The 20-year-old warrant issued for Polanski's arrest is still in effect. He fled to Paris, fearing...