Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter of national concern, one that Congress tried to deal with by passing the ham-handed Communications Decency Act in 1996. But last June the Supreme Court ruled that the CDA violated adults' First Amendment rights, leaving the whole issue of children and the Internet in something of a legal vacuum. Since policymakers abhor vacuums even more than Nature does, the capital found itself host last week of a conference graced with the title of "Internet/Online Summit: Focus on Children." Was there no budget for a clever acronym...
Beyond that, if an objectionable E-mail should get through, members can forward it to a department known as TOSspam (TOS stands for Terms of Service, AOL's internal police force), which can help the service take legal action. Last November, for example, it got a preliminary injunction against a firm called Over the Air Equipment, which not only sent sexually oriented spam but forged the AOL logo as well to suggest that the online provider was its partner...
...campaign. No woman has been arrested for putting a baby at risk by alcohol consumption or tobacco use--despite the fact that babies born with serious health problems as a result of booze and nicotine far outnumber babies born with cocaine in their systems. "I would be on a legal slippery slope if I tried to prosecute women who used legal substances," says Condon. But he is warning social workers and drug-abuse counselors that they too could be prosecuted and jailed if they fail to turn in pregnant women found to be on cocaine...
Condon doesn't confine himself to Columbia, the capital; he has three offices around the state, which happen to be in the largest media markets. He has left the legal trench fighting of the attorney general's office to his underlings and has instead focused on such high-profile issues as defending the Confederate flag and cracking down on pornographers. He is especially proud of his push to hasten the process of getting death-row inmates actually put to death. Two have been executed this year in South Carolina, but Condon expects the numbers to rise next year. (Sixty-nine...
...stop him on no basis that could stand up in court. So you lie if you have to. You say he ran a stop sign or didn't signal or had a broken taillight that you break after you've determined he's bad. That makes the initial stop legal...