Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week's deadline for filing briefs, an agglomeration of political, legal and scholarly petitioners had urged the court to leave the 1976 ruling in force. One brief came from 112 civil rights, religious and civic organizations. They were seconded by the attorneys general of 47 states. A congressional brief, bearing the names of 66 Senators (including 19 Republicans) and 118 House members (including five Republicans), also opposed reconsideration because of an "institutional interest in the stability of statutory precedents." One of the few institutions remaining silent: the Justice Department...
...suspicious West will be an interested spectator as the conference debates a set of ten "theses" that were approved last month by the Central Committee. On the basis of the debate, the conference will pass a series of resolutions, probably five in all, dealing with such issues as legal reform, nationalities and a general political resolution. They will then become official party policy. The theses include a manifesto of freedoms that suggests a cross between the U.S. Bill of Rights and the "Socialism with a human face" of Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubcek, which was crushed by Soviet tanks...
...sued to prevent Biographer Ian Hamilton from generously quoting or even closely paraphrasing unpublished letters. After enduring that expensive, lengthy and losing litigation, Random House, Hamilton's publisher, grew understandably cautious about forthcoming biographies on its list. One of the first to be scrutinized in light of the new legal landscape was John Cheever: A Biography. Says Gerald Hollingsworth, Random House's chief legal counsel: "As a result of the Salinger case, we paid an enormous amount of attention to the Cheever work. Whether we allowed Donaldson to use less of John Cheever's unpublished material than he would have...
...doing, the jury ruled, Ashland resorted to bribery: in 1980 and 1981, according to court records, the company paid $49 million to government officials in Oman and Saudi Arabia and a government representative in Abu Dhabi to obtain oil. Ashland attorneys had argued that the payments were legal and were made to private consultants...
Anti-tobacco forces celebrated the verdict as a breakthrough. John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University who heads the Action on Smoking and Health group, called the decision the "most important legal development involving tobacco since the cigarette companies were forced off television ((in 1971))." Product-liability experts predicted that the case would provide a boost in confidence and a how-to manual for the plaintiffs in 110 similar cases now being pursued in the U.S. Before long, the verdict could prompt fresh lawsuits as well, since cigarette foes like Banzhaf estimate that smoking contributes to the premature...