Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America's legal system is laced with protections for people who are too sick to know what they are doing or what is best for them. But as last week's proceedings in the trial of the alleged Unabomber showed, the law doesn't quite know what to do with someone who may be both crazy and cunning. The former Berkeley math professor managed, with his shifting demands and refusal to cooperate, to twist the case into a knot of conflicting legal rights that only a mathematician could untangle. Who should really shape the defense: lawyer or client? Can attorneys...
...represented by him," Kaczynski announced to the stunned audience. Judge Burrell denied the motion on the grounds that it was too late in the trial to bring in a new lawyer and give him time to prepare. Kaczynski accepted the decision with equanimity. He just leaned over his yellow legal pad and began scribbling more notes...
...Legal leeches aside, Texas is now guaranteed a payout. That wasn't the case when the state was hanging on for its $13 billion share of the fabled $368.5 billion national settlement which President Clinton was still huffing and puffing about Thursday. The only question now is what other conditions will be inked into the deal: Will Texas, like Florida, ban all cigarette billboard advertising? Will the Marlboro Man and the Lone Star state part company after all these years? Click back for details, as Texan Attorney General Dan Morales unveils the cigarette pact later today...
Microsoft in Legal Limbo The judge in the Microsoft contempt hearing recessed until Monday, after a day of sparring between the company and the Justice Department. Full Story The Hearing Blow-by-Blow TIME: Target: Microsoft
...Vice President's biggest weakness is not his inability to emulate the Clinton model of politicking but his adoption of its most unsavory aspects. Examples are his "no controlling legal authority" excuse to charges that he violated campaign laws and his denial that he knew the Buddhist temple affair was a political fund raiser. Gore has learned the wrong lessons from the Clinton presidency. But how can we expect him to keep his wits about him in an Administration whose motto seems to be "Everyone does it"? MICHAEL D. ALEX Glendora, Calif...