Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long legal fight has turned Kevin into a poster dad for the Family and Medical Leave Act, now six years old. Though about 2 million people a year take parental leave under the act, only half a million of them are men. Kevin is working to even the scales. He has testified before a federal commission and even got a mention in Hillary Rodham Clinton's book It Takes a Village. But the biggest changes are back home. When he and his wife had their second child, in 1996, Kevin was granted a full 12 weeks of paid leave...
...court rulings are part of an emerging legal consensus: that speech on the Internet should get the same protection, and carry the same responsibilities, as in print. That means it will be hard but not impossible to restrict online smut. While rejecting Congress's new law, the Philadelphia judge pointed to some restrictions that might be permissible. The Portland jury verdict is a timely reminder that on the Internet, as in other media, imminent threats aren't protected by the First Amendment...
...thorniest problem is those 383,000 miles of timber roads that crisscross the national forests. "They are the heart of a lot of controversy," says Marty Hayden, director of policy for the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. Environmentalists complain that the roads, cut for the timber companies and maintained by the Forest Service, are degrading watersheds, filling streams with silt and subdividing wildlife habitats. "It is simply time to stop logging our national forests," says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope...
...cockfighting and dogfighting. "I know when I step into the ring, that's my choice," he testified at a congressional briefing, "but these animals, they have no choice." Goldberg says Steve Largent, the Representative from his home state of Oklahoma, one of only three states where cockfighting is still legal, nixed a meeting. Bad move. "I'm not sure why he wouldn't see me," Goldberg says. "I would think he'd want me in his corner, but we'll just see who the most popular man from Oklahoma...
...story. The main character is a flawed hero--John Travolta plays real-life lawyer Jan Schlictmann with fiery intensity and a stubborn arrogance. A Civil Action is a difficult movie to like precisely because we must watch his disintegration. But the film rewards your patience. It takes the standard legal thriller and in it finds something more substantial: a human drama defined by gray rather than black and white...