Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goad the judge into making a prejudicial error; it would be handy on appeal. Medina occasionally reddened with wrath as they darted in at him: Isserman with his soft bay; Gladstein with his air of righteous plausibility turning to outraged innocence when the judge caught him laying a legal trap; Harry Sacher, the little man with the bull voice, chivying the Court, then smiling impishly, eyes cast down, while the judge mildly upbraided him; Dennis rushing in occasionally to make a choked, impassioned speech...
...legal staff is still negotiating with United World Films, another distributor, which also stopped renting films to the HLU when the University Theater protested that the Liberal Union Film Series was "unfair competition...
...soaring off into ideological space. He had to be stopped once again when he began to argue that the Reds had supported the U.S. war effort. It was beside the point, said the Court, "to show what good boys you were in other respects." Roughly within the framework of legal propriety Dennis made these points...
...habit, too. Its members missed no pettifogging chance for objection, argument, delay. By such tactics they had held off the actual start of the trial for ten weeks. Now that it had been begun, delay for confusion's sake was still one of their favorite legal weapons...
...confusing, ultra-nationalist oil laws had crippled efforts to develop resources. It often took ten years to get an exploration concession through Colombian courts. After that, the million dollars spent on drilling a new well would be subject to tax whether oil was found or not. Extra-legal riders of one sort or another jacked royalties as high as 25%; the total government take, in taxes and royalties, sometimes ran over half the value of a company's net revenue. "Colombia," growled an oilman in Bogota, "is the graveyard of oil profits from other countries...