Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whatever one thinks of the legal reasoning employed in White's dissent, it was clearly the precedent-based conclusion of a reasonable jurist, not the ravings of a black-robed subversive intent on rewriting the law. As part of his political move, however, Ashcroft said the reasoning was based on "an outrageous technicality" and accused White of harbouring a "personal political agenda...
...high-tech needs smart antitrust enforcement, that raises an even trickier question: Is the American legal system up to it? The wheels of justice have always ground slowly--and even today the courts have more in common with Dickens' Bleak House than with the World Wide Web. By the lightning-paced standards of the computer industry, the law is positively glacial. After Jackson is done with the case, the appeals could drag on for two more years. That's a lifetime in Silicon Valley...
...important to recognize that today's filing is just one step in an ongoing legal process that has many steps remaining," Gates declared. Under questioning, he again professed to be interested in a settlement--but quickly veered off into a monologue about the importance of building "great software" and maintaining the freedom to innovate. If anyone in the audience was confused into thinking Gates was giving in, Microsoft general counsel Bill Neukom stepped up next to explain what his boss was really saying. No, the company had no intention of backing down. "We are in it," he said...
...these three Southerners, all in their 20s, find themselves litigants in a legal mess and, consequently, martyrs of sorts for a fledgling movement. A year ago, a judge removed April's daughter Alana from the Divilbiss-Littrell home. The judge was acting on a petition from Alana's paternal grandmother arguing that the threesome's relationship revealed such "depravity" that it could "endanger the morals or health" of the little girl, a sunshiney four-year-old who prizes her Barbies. The grandmother took action after seeing the three discuss their lifestyle on an MTV program...
...minutes into the conversation, an insanely beautiful woman enters the suite and cuddles up in [The Artist]'s lap. It's Mayte, [The Artist]'s wife. Only she's kind of also not really his wife, because they had their marriage annulled so they could transcend the "legal bonds that people demand...