Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Galluccio aren't the first American gay partners to adopt jointly. Judges in other states, including California, have quietly allowed such adoptions in the past, according to the A.C.L.U.'s Michael Adams, the point man on the New Jersey case. And according to a 1996 report by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay legal-rights group, courts in 21 states have approved so-called second-parent adoptions, or adoptions by the partners of individuals who have given birth to or who have already adopted a child. (This was the lengthy double-adoption procedure that Holden and Galluccio...
...under the tree. Having finalized his adoption in October, Holden, 34, and Galluccio, 35, plan to adopt their foster daughter as well. Of Adam, Holden said last week, "he has had two physical parents, two psychological parents, two emotional parents. The only things we weren't were his two legal parents." Now Adam has those as well...
...GORE "No controlling legal authority." Buddhist monks. Toasting Jiang. Oliver Barrett IV never had problems like these...
...Tardiest Admission Thirty-three years after the Surgeon General first issued his warning, a cigarette company admitted that smoking causes cancer. As part of a legal settlement, the comparatively small Liggett Group also conceded that tobacco companies have aimed pitches at teenagers--a charge its bigger brethren still deny...
...stays in Judge Jackson's court, the focus now shifts to Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, the "special master" empowered by Jackson to sort through the daunting complexities of federal antitrust law and Microsoft's operating-system strategies--and to report back by May 31. Lessig, 36, an iconoclastic legal scholar who has written about the "tyranny" of computer code, is a Macintosh user...