Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exact form" of the Miranda warnings to inform arrested suspects of their rights, left little doubt that the court's tough law-and-order majority is firmly entrenched. "The days of criminals' getting off on technicalities are over," declared Daniel Popeo, head of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation, surveying the overall rightward drift of the Rehnquist Court's criminal jurisprudence this year...
...capital-punishment cases focused new attention on some of the 2,200 convicts on death row, 31 of whom committed their crimes as juveniles and as many as 30% of whom may be retarded or mentally impaired. While liberal activists fumed at the rulings, conservative legal experts and law-enforcement officials gave strong approval. Commented Phil Caruso, president of New York City's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association: "These are sound decisions, in keeping with what's happening on our streets today. We're talking about teenagers who have reached the age of intellectual maturity, who can distinguish right from wrong...
...declared that Giamatti was so biased against Rose that the Reds' manager could not get a fair hearing. Nadel this week will conduct another hearing on a motion for an injunction to bar the Giamatti proceeding indefinitely. Even if Nadel issues the injunction, baseball lawyers are certain to appeal. Legal experts give them an excellent chance of winning; Nadel's initial ruling broke a long tradition of courts' staying out of professional disciplinary affairs...
...years. Casinos took in more than half of all bets, or $164 billion; sports gambling was a distant second with a $28 billion take, up 57% from 1983. Though impressive, that increase was dwarfed by a 98% jump in the coins clinked into slot machines, a 103% rise in legal bookmaking and a 228% leap in money wagered in cardrooms...
...Legal gambling has spread into some of the most straitlaced parts of the nation. Take Iowa: six years ago, even church bingo games were illegal there. Now Iowa residents have some of the widest choices available in legal gambling. They can buy tickets in either the state lottery or Lotto America, an organization that some experts think may be the nucleus of a national lottery; it currently operates in eight states and the District of Columbia and expects to sign up two more states this summer. Iowans can also bet at one horse track and three dog tracks...