Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, they won a hotly-contested union election a year ago last May. Then they survived a protracted court battle with Harvard's biggest legal guns to win an endorsement by a National Labor Relations Board judge. Finally, Harvard capitulated and the union, after 17-plus years of organizing, was official...
...Electoral College, dominated by Parliament members of the National Party, cast a unanimous vote for de Klerk, just one day after the march in Cape Town, the largest legal protest march in South Africa's history...
Dershowitz has also given time recently to a different legal dispute, one of a more personal nature...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD)--where Schkolnick 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...
Mazowiecki told Parliament he came "as a man of Solidarity, faithful to the legacy of August" 1980, when Solidarity became the first legal independent union in the East bloc...