Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critics, Morgan is a paranoid liar who has invented the rape charges out of malice against Foretich; her defiance of Dixon's order, they argue, is a sign of obsession, not maternal devotion. To ethicists and legal scholars, the case raises some troubling questions: Should there be time limits on a judge's right to jail a person for civil contempt? Does a parent, where suspicions of sexual abuse exist, have a moral right to defy the courts to protect a child...
...speech last week, Bush called for even more drug testing. But some legal scholars complain that random drug testing of all employees, whether or not they are suspected of using illegal substances, disregards the venerable notion of "probable cause" -- that a search can be triggered only by a well- founded suspicion of criminal action by a particular individual. "When you start saying a search satisfies the Fourth Amendment even though it's not based on any focused suspicion at all, you've ripped the heart out of the Fourth Amendment," insists University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar...
After more than five years of legal wrangling with the New York attorney general's office, Harvard finally succeeded in selling the forest this summer to the New York-based Golden Family Foundation. The new owners plan to lease the forest to a consortium of New York education institutions, who will use it for teaching and research purposes...
After that, Harvard and its newest, most highly publicized union will face the difficult task of translating the contract's legal jargon into the day-to-day language of the workplace. Says Manna, "Some of the administrative details haven't been worked out yet. We're not sure exactly how everything will work...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD)--where Schokolnick filed her complaint in December 1988--has still not reached a verdict. Last spring, the commission tabled a Fly Club motion to dismiss the case and announced it would reach a verdict based on currently available information. That decision ended months of legal jockeying between Baker and the Fly Club's attorneys, whom MCAD labeled uncooperative at one point...