Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good dose of semantics("the Department submits no official slate of members," italics added) and denial ("I could find no evidence to support your assertion that...committee members were known to be antipathetic to Professor Berkowitz's published work.") But as the letter serves as the official legal response from the University in a case that may very well lead to a lawsuit seeking damages, it is not meant to be taken at face value; rather it is the defensive reply to an opening blast. When the lawyer Feinberg visited Nesson's class to discuss the potentials of the Berkowitz...
...case, the issue at hand is greater than the academic parlor game of "Who killed J.R?" For the Berkowitz camp, the question is whether there is a legal cause of action through which the professor can attain a new tenure hearing and/or financial damages for irreparable harm. For the Joint Committee on Appointments, the question is whether due process was violated so that the supposed sanctity and neutrality of the tenure process which former Dean of FAS Henry Rosovsky heralds in The University, is maintained. For the University community as a whole, the question is whether this method...
...their invasion of privacy claim by quite publicly discussing the contents of the tape on Howard Stern's radio show. In December the couple reached a settlement with IEG, the terms of which neither side will discuss--although IEG now heralds the video it is selling as the "Only Legal Version" of "the most controversial tape ever made...
...much for the legal wranglings. What does the tape offer? For the most part, relatively mild stuff: Pam and Tommy fishing, camping, gardening and cooing newlywed niceties to each other. O.K., there's also plenty of camera time for the pair's respective endowments and several minutes of hard-core sex in inspired locations like California's Highway 15. The IEG tape enhances these moments with slow-motion replays and a pornish sound track. At least a few viewers, including Seth Warshasky, the head of IEG, think the Lees staged the whole thing. "It's a publicity stunt," he says...
...into a car--because that's still legal in Los Angeles, despite a midday sky that spreads like an underarm stain from Burbank to Buena Park--and you go to the places you know will defy the smoking ban that went into effect a few hours earlier...