Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Starr's efforts are anywhere near exhausted. According to the L.A. Times, he's subpoenaed the legal effects of Lewinsky's former lawyer, Francis Carter. According to CNN, he's dragging Betty Currie and Bruce Lindsey back before the jury Thursday. Maybe after those repeat performances, Starr will feel inclined to finally call Monica herself -- and get this salacious media event over with...
...other legal news: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a ruling that John Grisham's novel "The Chamber" did not infringe on a nonfiction work written by serial killer Ted Bundy's last lawyer, Polly Nelson. She had sued Grisham and Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, alleging the novel was too similar to her copyrighted book "Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer." A U.S. district court dismissed the case before it went to trial after an "exhaustive examination of both books" showed them to be substantially dissimilar. The decision was affirmed...
...Iraq squad stuffed with generals and diplomats and political advisers trying to figure out how to sell the least worst option for responding to Saddam and conducting the war if it comes. The Monica team has no public face, never says much, spends a lot of time in secret legal proceedings and has a clear goal: to keep the President in office. The Iraq team, on the other hand, has a goal no one can easily sell, and a dozen spokesmen and -women who fanned out last week in full dress...
Twice a day--at 8:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.--the worlds collide. The spinners meet with the lawyers in Ruff's second-floor office in the West Wing. Here the legal strategies hatched at the first sessions become p.r. strategies in the second. "We don't deal with facts," said a participant. "We deal with spin." The cast varies from day to day, but the communications team generally consists of McCurry, Emanuel, adviser Paul Begala and various other image makers...
...bumbling ex-Governor may be on his way to prison for a fraud conviction, and the most popular future candidate is a Wild West sheriff with his own legal problems who rose to fame on the strength of such practices as dressing inmates in pink underwear. Exhibition baseball can't compete...