Word: legalism
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...childless, wants to use them to have children. Steven, 38, is adamant that he doesn't want kids with his ex-wife. He is seeking to donate the embryos to research. Their fight has ended up in New York's highest court, which hears arguments this week. Legal experts expect a landmark decision that will reverberate nationally on the hotly contested question of just who controls frozen fertilized tissue that has the potential to become human life...
From Internet privacy to genetic testing, technology has raced ahead too fast for legal doctrine to keep up. And nowhere is the gap between what scientists have discovered and what judges must rule on greater than in the realm of artificial reproduction. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 frozen embryos--fertilized eggs no larger than a grain of sand--are being preserved in liquid-nitrogen canisters across the country. As many as 20,000 of them could be in legal limbo. As of now, the courts have no clear rules for resolving questions of ownership and control. Lawyers...
...institute has taken great pains to ensure that those who are financially supporting the Paula Jones litigation know exactly where their money is going and how it is being spent. Money sent to the Rutherford Institute for the Jones litigation is used to pay court costs and legal expenses (not attorneys' fees) for the ongoing case, and for nothing else. ALEXIS CROW, General Counsel The Rutherford Institute Charlottesville...
...facts emerging in the Jones case, most legal experts say, cut against her. Willey? The public is tilting toward he-said, away from she-said. Lewinsky? Starr will have a hard time convincing a poll-driven Congress that lying about consensual sex means you lie about everything; it is the only thing many people lie about. An impeachment for lying looks like an impeachment for sex, too much of a punishment in either event, and a huge ordeal for the country...
...Indeed, legal experts are hard pressed to cite examples of cases in which parents have suffered harsh penalties. Under a St. Clair Shores, Mich., ordinance, for example, a couple was fined $2,200 in 1996 after their son pleaded no contest to breaking and entering a church and drug-related charges. Their convictions were later overturned. Says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco: "Parental-responsibility law is a gray area. It's a toothless tiger. We have no research on the laws' effectiveness...