Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stake is a woman's right to control her own body, a woman's right to privacy"--this powerful argument forms the moral and legal plank of the pro-choice platform. Indeed, given the way that pro-choicers have been able to frame the debate, to oppose abortion, for many people, means that one is thus anti-liberty and privacy and for the imposition of others' views on women...
City and state laws already in existence severely punish landlords for harassing tenants out of a rentcontrolled apartment or for demanding anything at all besides the legal rent. It will remain illegal for any landlord even to ask a tenant to buy an apartment before renting...
...School students really do eat, sleep and breathe legal studies. The student-run Law School Drama Society's letterhead stationary contains the following footnote: "The Harvard Law School Drama Society is a non-profit organization under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. All contributions may be deducted as provided in section 170 of the Code...
Peter M. Yu was chosen from a pool of 14 candidates from the second-year class in an electoral process that placed him in charge of a publication widely considered to be the nation's best student-edited legal journal...
Stanford has informed the management of Webb Ranch that it must correct housing deficiencies like ill-maintained, unheated and overcrowded cabins, Vartain said. But he added that these instructions do not mean the university assumes legal responsibility for the conditions...