Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first state public defender and a state deputy attorney general. Fellow jurists who know his work have nothing but praise for him. Says San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Harry W. Low, until recently president of the California Judges' Association: "He's got an excellent legal mind and a good sense of being able to relate to people." Adds Lawyer James J. Brosnahan, an ex-president of the San Francisco Bar Association: "His opinions showed a sensitivity for civil liberties and a deep knowledge of constitutional law. He was a young man with a bright future." Obviously, whatever...
...Union revealed that he had written a string of rubber checks and had several times been accused of malpractice. Last week Brown appointed an avowed homosexual to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, exposing the Governor, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, to further criticism. And for all his impressive legal credentials, even Halvonik was not everyone's idea of an appellate judge. A jazz player who moved his piano into his Sacramento office in 1975, when he worked for the Governor, Halvonik, who sports a Pancho Villa mustache, had once before been caught with a marijuana cigarette...
...years the lowly snail darter, a finger-size species of perch, blocked completion of the $116 million Tellico Dam project on the Little Tennessee River. Because the creature was found only in these waters, it was entitled to protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. But it also provided legal leverage for environmentalists who saw the dam as a pork barrel that would deluge 16,000 acres of fertile farm land and wipe out Indian historical sites...
...legal means of stopping construction have now been exhausted. We support the peaceful occupation of Seabrook as the only recourse left. The plant is unnecessary, uneconomic and, when completed, it will be unsafe. As with nuclear power plants all over the country, the price tag for Seabrook has more than doubled from $973 million to more than $2 billion since its conception. If we continue pouring money down the nuclear drain, we will not have the resources or the will to invest in other energy sources. The final cost of Seabrook alone is more than twice the federal government...
...themselves isolated from members of the opposite sex, they will soon pass on their damaged genes to the general population--not a trivial factor, since the industry uses large numbers of people, sometimes called sponges, who are not regular employees, to absorb in a few minutes or hours the legal quota of radiation for three months. The next day, they are tossed back into the "population...