Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff sidesteps the critical fact that the Web site in question aims to incite violence against innocent citizens who perform a legal medical procedure. In so doing, the site weakens its claims to First Amendment protection, and we hope the Federal court in Oregon considers this question more seriously than the staff...
...Saturday, drafting scripts, dividing tasks among the lawyers, debating whether preparing for witnesses would make the prosecutors more likely to call them. Even those with the most courtroom experience will never be fully ready for a trial unlike any ever held. It is as much a political as a legal proceeding; the jury is also the judge; justice, which is supposed to be blind, has a party affiliation; prosecutors will be held to no specified standard of proof; and the verdict will under no circumstances be unanimous...
...logic rare in the Arab world. For centuries, men of the region have engaged in "honor killing," the intrafamily slaughter of allegedly errant females. Women have endured the custom, while legal establishments have tolerated or even condoned it. But now activists in Jordan, backed by the royal family, are dragging the issue out of the darkness. "We are determined to be an example in our part of the world," Queen Noor told CNN's Christiane Amanpour last week in an interview for NewsStand: CNN & TIME...
...media, thanks in part to Rana Husseini, a trailblazing reporter for the English-language Jordan Times. Since 1996 the Jordanian Women's Union has operated a hot line for women in distress. Creating a safe house to protect them is the next objective of activists. Abolishing the legal loopholes is another...
...Harvard legal squad took the case on behalf of Eldritch Press, a non-profit purveyor of literary works over the Internet...