Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 80 people treked through the rain last night to view films presenting both sides of the case for keeping abortion legal...
...anti-abortion film showed a third-trimester abortion to back up the concept that abortion is murder. The pro-choice film adressed the inevitability of abortion whatever its legal status and commented on the improvement nation's health statistics since the procedure became legal...
Second, liberals will find that settlements provide only a temporary and occasional solution to these problems. As time passes and judicial conservatism becomes ingrained in our legal system, acceptable settlements may become harder and harder to negotiate. If a company guilty of discriminatory hiring practices is threatened with a lawsuit, it might prefer to go to trial if the courts consistently rule against affirmative action...
UNITED States legal history is filled with cases in which the Court has guaranteed and expanded our rights to free association, free speech and privacy against those who would deny them. It is phenomenal that civil libertarians are now trying to avoid the Court at any cost...
...unclear what effect the upheaval prompted by last spring's Tiananmen Square massacre will have on Chinese legal scholars here...