Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Including legal emigrants, more than 100,000 East Germans have gone to the West this year...
Although SPIL members have discussed the idea of extending their legal assistance to landlords, Dee said that the group's limited resources make such a scheme unworkable. And by representing property owners, she said, the group would lose its effectiveness as tenant advocates...
SPOA Co-Chair John F. Natale said that his group resents what it sees as "one-sided" activities by Students for Public Interest Law (SPIL) in cases before the city's Rent Control Board. SPIL, a part of the Law School's clinical studies program, provides free legal aid to tenants in many cases but does not represent landlords...
...Harvard's paying for one class of people to get free legal advice, they should either subsidize groups to represent landlords or tell students to change the group," Ackerman-Eaton said...
...rights suit pleading that "people's livelihoods should not depend upon their holding 'correct' political views." The U.S. Supreme Court last January rejected her bid for a punitive-damages award, although it let stand a judgment of $39,500 to cover lost employment -- an amount far smaller than the legal fees she spent fighting for her principles...