Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Georgetown should have known of the cult's potential for violence and warned him. Sorrowing relatives of the victims charged that both the State Department and FBI should have long ago heeded their warnings about Jonestown. Yet both agencies had a valid point in claiming that there are important legal restrictions against the Government's prying into the private affairs of Americans living abroad, as well as constitutional protection of groups claiming to be religious...
What made the cheer possible was a bitter struggle in the state legislature that gave local jurisdictions the right to legalize the sale of liquor by the drink. Before, North Carolinians were limited to beer, wine or whatever hard liquor they chose to "brown bag" (carry with them) when they went out on the town. With North Carolina's shift to local option, there are now only two states where sales of drinks at public places are banned outright. One is Oklahoma, where the temperance law is widely ignored. The other is Kansas, which ran into legal difficulties with...
Maybe justice is blind. Although the Supreme Court singled out Harvard's undergraduate admissions process for special praise in last summer's Bakke decision, the Medical School's undergraduate admissions process now seems to be on uncertain legal ground...
...legal issue centers on an environmental impact statement (EIS) which was prepared when the MBTA planned to extend the Red Line to Rte. 128. The MBTA claims that this impact statement can be applied to its current extension project, even though the line is planned to go only as far as the Alewife Brook Parkway...
Barnes's decision follows a series of rulings in recent years that have giver lawyers, engineers, druggists and optometrists the right to advertise. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1977 to allow lawyers to advertise has led to the development of numerous low-cost legal clinics...