Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MASSACHUSETTS Department of Public Welfare still awaits a legal opinion as to exactly when the Massachusetts bill passed by the Legislature will go into effect. As it turns out, Weinburg, a full-time lobbyist for MORAL, and her associates have suspected for a year that the Legislature would pass the bill, which Flynn began working on three years ago. But even if Dukakis's veto had been sustained, poor women could have been hurt more by a compromise bill, because then there would have been no court precedents to overrule it. MORAL went to work at the end of last...
...three years and a million delays (because of legal problems) later, Springsteen's fourth album is here. Unfortunatley, the boy from Asbury Park seems to have lost something during those years, because Darkness on the Edge of Town is not really the album everyone has been wating to hear for so long...
...refusal to give the press unique access comes only four weeks after the court, in Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily, refused to grant journalists any special First Amendment protection from legal police searches. A few weeks before that, Burger declared in an opinion in another case that members of the press generally have no greater free speech rights than nonmembers. All this has convinced some journalists that the court is growing increasingly indifferent to the rights of the press. Says Jack Landau, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "The court feels the press is arrogant and greedy...
Last year, when Powell provided the deciding vote in a 5-to-4 ruling upholding suspects' rights to legal counsel while being questioned by police, he was rebuked from the bench by Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger waspishly declared that with "only one convert" the court might some day restore "rationality" by voting the other...
...Richmond school board in 1959, he won a hard-fought battle against the state's segregationists, who were urging massive resistance to the Supreme Court's ruling on school desegregation. As president of the American Bar Association in 1964-65. he persuaded colleagues to support legal aid for the poor...