Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispute turns on whether the school board or the university would take responsibility for legal action against the Chelsea schools...
People cluster in the darkened hallways--a public defender tries to get a pair of defendants to admit, an assistant D.A. confers with a prosecution witness. Speaking quickly, in legal jargon, they're making deals. They look and sound like fast-talking hustlers in a David Mamet play. But there's a difference. Many of the key players are women...
Those who spend their days working in the Middlesex Courthouse say the female presence has challenged legal traditions in two ways: first, in the interpersonal relationships among litigants, lawyers and judges; and second, women may be having an effect on the law itself, both in the way cases are decided and how laws are implemented...
...Mitchelson might want to reconsider. Since he won a highly publicized divorce settlement for actor James Mason's wife Pamela in 1964, Mitchelson has built a multimillion dollar practice helping the likes of Joan Collins, Tony Curtis and Zsa Zsa Gabor get unhitched. Perhaps Mitchelson's chief claim to legal fame was the concept of palimony, which he introduced by arguing in 1970 that Michelle Triola, Lee Marvin's live-in lover, might be entitled to some of the actor's property. The California Supreme Court endorsed the palimony principle...
...make amends, Takeshita responded last week with a Cabinet shuffle, ousting 15 of his 20 Ministers. But his new Justice Minister, Takashi Hasegawa, was forced to resign only three days later after it was disclosed that one of his political support groups had accepted legal-but-compromising cash contributions of $3,800 a month from the company behind the stock episode...