Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken the outside agitation of a publicity-seeking New York City legal expert--no, not Geraldo Rivera--to put the heaviest formal pressure on Boulder authorities. Attorney Darnay Hoffman (clients include Bernhard Goetz, the famed subway gunman; family members include wife Sidney Biddle Barrows, the famed "Mayflower Madam") has filed suit against district attorney Alex Hunter, charging--under an obscure Colorado statute that allows private citizens to question the actions of prosecutors--that Hunter has "unjustifiably refused" to charge Patsy Ramsey. Hoffman's evidence? Testimonials from four writing experts alleging it is probable the ransom note discovered when JonBenet...
...birthplace give his work its special flavor, not to mention its distinctive sense of the not quite familiar. Richler's raffish characters could be from New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, except that they are nuts about hockey, spice their conversation with French as well as Yiddish and have legal access to Cuban cigars...
...around a track during gym. A requirement for graduation is not a law. True, there is a consequence for failing to do these things--no graduation--but there are consequences for failing to do any number of things in life. The choice, however, is still there, with no legal penalty. Slavery is involuntary. Community service is not. MILTON B. ROUSE, Teacher of English Dana Hills High School Dana Point, Calif...
...Wait a minute. I thought Carlos fired his lawyers? True ? in fact, as he shouted at the judge last week, Ilich doesn't recognize the authority of the entire court. But that doesn't stop Coutant-Peyre fulfilling her legal obligation to act on his behalf...
TIME's Weekend Review At the end of a week of legal woes for Microsoft, the revelation that TIME's man of the year is a close compatriot of Bill Gates' will come as a bittersweet blow for the Microsoft billionaire. Where did he go wrong? Read the Review...