Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What happened a few hours later was the legal all-star game of the Lewinsky scandal. Kendall, Starr and Lewinsky's lawyers gathered for the first time in one room for a hearing so private the court clerk would not confirm it happened. The issue at hand was Starr's appeal of a sealed order last month by the lower-court judge Norma Holloway Johnson, who not only admonished Starr for his team's alleged leaks but also ordered him to turn over records of its contacts with the media. The President's lawyer, who had lodged the almost forgotten...
...antitrust suit, and it seems that Bill Gates's time as Mr. Nice Guy may have been short-lived. The software giant's filing Tuesday not only denies, point by point, each of the antitrust allegations against it, but countersues the states for a reimbursement of the company's legal fees in the case -- and demands a dismissal of the entire suit...
...course the 400-pound Jones's sad-sacking couldn't have anything to do with his habit of signing papers "Adolf Hitler" and "Snow White" -- and why penalize him for the age-old Nebraska legal tradition of setting bonds of "a gazillion pengos," as he is accused of doing? Throw in his misunderstood indoor Grucci impersonation along with allegations of swearing routinely at court staff and making improper physical contact with a female judge, and you've got the makings of a high-tech lynching, as another wise man once said. Jones's suit says he was discriminated against...
...family as a traditional African bride payment. Machel will keep her name and continue to commute between South Africa and Mozambique, where she remains an influential figure. Because of her love, Mandela once declared, "late in my life, I am blooming like a flower." Now it's all legal...
...White House has seen this coming for a while," says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Jef McAllister. "The President only talks to David Kendall now -- and Kendall, as his personal lawyer, only talks to God." The rest of the President's legal team, including best buddy Lindsey, has had to walk a difficult line, trying to act as advisers and lawyers at the same time, and knowing all the while that hearing too much could get them a potentially disastrous date with the grand jury. "Who knows? This may not matter," McAllister says. "The President may not have told Lindsey...