Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Claiming that Harvard has violated its civil rights, a pro-divestment alumni group is threatening legal action to block controversial changes in the Board of Overseers election process...
...What the University is doing essentially is penalizing HRAAA based on its views on divestment," said Frank E. Deale, legal director for the Center on Constitutional Rights, which has taken on the case. "It's no different than if a person walks into a voting booth sponsored by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the voting booth there's a big sign that says the Commonwealth of Massachusetts endorses candidate...
...Harvard attorney Michael W. Roberts, who met with Deale and HRAAA Executive Director Robert P. Wolff'54 on Friday, said yesterday the University did not believe the legal objections had any basis...
...some legal experts have also begun to talk about an emerging "drug exception" to the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures -- a willingness by courts, where drugs are concerned, to permit searches they might otherwise disallow. In recent years, for example, the Supreme Court has allowed expanded use of so-called drug-courier profiles -- descriptions of a smuggler's characteristic behavior and appearance -- as a basis upon which to stop and question suspects, despite complaints that such profiles give police license to stop blacks and Hispanics. It has also upheld the right of police to inspect a drug...
...Colombia others paid a high price for Barco's boldness. Luz Amparo Gomez, 29, a former investigator for the attorney general's office who was involved in a legal action against drug kingpin Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, was driving to her home when gunmen shot her to death. Hours later, the wife of a police major was gunned down outside her home. A day earlier, the wife of an intelligence officer attached to the 13th Brigade, the army unit that has spearheaded the crackdown, was murdered...