Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Shot. The C.I.O. and A.F.L., working separately but on parallel tracks, opened their legal campaign. There was ample precedent for such tactics. All important laws get their court tests, and labor laws get the most stringent tests of all. In 1936, management blasted away at the Wagner Act with 83 test suits in the first ten months...
...first legal shot was fired. To test the section prohibiting political action in union papers which are supported by members' dues, labor's press published the congressional voting record on the bill. The C.I.O. hoped it would be prosecuted. In Washington, A.F.L. and C.I.O officials met to map further strategy. Phil Murray sat down with the lawyers of his C.I.O. unions. The A.F.L.'s General Counsel Joe Padway and some 100 A.F.L lawyers went over the law's text word by word...
...holds euthanasia (putting an incurable patient to death) to be murder. Supporters of euthanasia, including many doctors and a few clergymen, are aware that the law must be changed before euthanasia can ever be legal. To find out what the U.S. public thought, Gallup pollsters asked the question: "When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life by some painless means if the patient and his family request...
...manner of the Scopes trial of the '20s, great legal eagles are flown in and the press comes to roost. The trial drags on as the lawyers find in a few inches of local precipitation the world issue of Religion v. Science. Crops go unsown, the town goes almost broke before the preacher gets the atheist to admit, on penalty of being shown "negligent," that he himself prayed for the rain to stop. Clearly then, says the preacher, it was prayer against prayer, and the case has already been judged in the Highest Court...
Thomas Erskine, son of the Scottish 10th Earl of Buchan, is still regarded by many legal scholars as the greatest advocate ever to come before a jury. Usually "for the defense," he pleaded the most historic cases in one of England's most history-packed periods. For his time, he was the great courtroom defender of English civil liberties...