Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This suit should spark debate about whether state-sponsored class action suits are causing the legislative branch to cede its regulatory responsibilities to the court system. In the case of tobacco litigation, states accused the cigarette makers of evading legal regulation by concealing the effects of smoking...
...rated throughout most of the day, mentioning the words sex and sexual only four times in his opening remarks and prefacing his comments deferentially with "you may disagree with me," or "I want to be fair," he succeeded. But presenting himself as the Mister Rogers of the Washington legal elite did not aid Starr in his bigger task--persuading anyone who wasn't already convinced that the case he had built against the President was strong enough to merit impeachment. Said Democratic committee member Charles Schumer, who won a Senate race against Clinton nemesis Al D'Amato three weeks...
...others. So it is shocking when Harvard students say that the free exercise of religion and the freedom of speech must take back seats to other values of dubious significance, such as "a sense of community" or an extremely broad notion of a woman's right to a legal abortion...
WASHINGTON: It's alive! The government's antitrust case against Microsoft lumbers on Wednesday, despite the stake driven into its heart by the $4.2 billion deal between Netscape, America Online and Sun Microsystems. Redmond's legal team tried its best to kill the beast Tuesday, arguing that the formation of what was effectively a two-party system in the software industry made government regulation irrelevant. But the beast refused to die. "If I'm counting it right, [that's] the sixth time during the trial that Microsoft has pronounced the government's case dead," said chief Justice Department attorney David...
...possible snag is that Kevorkian's face was not actually shown on the broadcast -- but then again, the good doctor isn't exactly marshaling his legal forces for a vigorous defense. Kevorkian's lawyer, David Gorosh, said today that his client has fired him and wants Wayne State University law professor Robert Sedler to provide legal advice. But just from the sidelines -- Kevorkian wants to represent himself in court. And he's promised that if convicted, he'll starve himself to death in prison. Without anyone else's help...