Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfectly legal--as legal as the Mormons investing money in Marriott Hotels, as legal as the Catholic Church investing in Pepsi-Cola. The Unification Church-linked enterprises manage to evade any complications in dealing with their foreign contingents, and the money they receive from their international corporations--after passing through a myriad of businesses and church connections--is laundered clean...
...said the case, initiated by the government in March, had set The Progressive back $150,000 in legal costs, "and the bills are still coming in. Financially, the effect has been catastrophic...
After citing the Press Connection's publication Sunday of a letter on the hydrogen bomb from Charles Hanson, a California computer programmer, Justice Department spokesman Terrence Adamson left open the possibility of legal action in the matter...
...audience at the University of Arizona College of Law that while the court has protected the right to disseminate information, it has never upheld any right to acquire information. Whether that reasoning will continue to close courtroom doors to the press remains to be seen. In the meantime, legal experts say that the Gannett decision should be narrowly interpreted...
...young associates (Martin Short, Alley Mills, John Getz) must choose between ambition and conscience. As one of them jokes, should he "make a nun crack under crossexamination" to serve a big client? The Associates is not afraid to address the ethical issues, light and serious, that confront the legal profession. This show is only afraid of being unfunny or cheap - and, of that, it apparently need have no fear...