Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After HUCTW won a support staff referendum lastspring, the University contested the validity ofthe vote, accusing organizers of illegalelectioneering. The union victory has been tied upin legal dispute since then; although Judge JoelA. Harmatz upheld the union victory Monday,Harvard may appeal that decision, delayingcontract negotiations indefinitely...
...refusal to name the defendant is a novel idea, and one that is generating intense interest among lawyers. Our legal system is built on the assumption that justice should be impartially meted out and, thus, blind. But to insist that a case could be discussed and tried without the prosecutors knowing the identity the defendant is unfair. How are they supposed to fight a shadow...
...killed. Such a hypothesis justified almost any conceivable answer. Dukakis could have vented anger at the premise of the question or passionately explained his own feelings of outrage when his father was badly mugged. Such a response would have been a perfect way to introduce his view that the legal system is designed to temper human impulses for hang-him-high vengeance. But even as his political dreams hung in the balance, Dukakis mustered all the emotion of a time-and- temperature recording. He managed to turn a question about his wife being brutalized and murdered into a discourse...
...last week's oral arguments, Julius Chambers, director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, argued against overturning Runyon by stressing that it had become a "significant part of the web of congressional and judicial efforts to rid the country of public and private discrimination." Surprisingly, when Manhattan attorney Roger Kaplan argued to overturn the ruling, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who had voted to rehear the case, asked from the bench, "Let's concede that ((Runyon)) is wrong. So what? What's special about this case to require us to go back and change our decision?" When Kaplan...
...that she needs a Spanish interpreter in court, is convicted of trying to influence the result of a local election with a $20 bribe. In Matamoros, where posters from last summer's presidential campaign still crowd the walls, elections are invested with fewer moral, if not legal, expectations. Perhaps the single most striking statement to emerge during the campaign was the call by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and the eventual victor, for honest voting and an honest count. Not exactly the kind of statement that would make people...