Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death penalty violates our Eighth Amendment right to be free from 'cruel and unusual punishment.'" Some legal scholars contend that state execution can be considered a form of 'cruel and unusual punishment' and is therefore unconstitutional. They argue, on moral grounds, that a society that puts its members to death is barbaric and that barbarism is not consonant with our constitution...
Felipe said she is currently suing her company, which is located in Bakersfield, Calif. She declined to name her company for legal reasons...
...only shyster in town who's willing to take a chance on young Rudy; she's his landlady who is nowhere near as ditsy as she looks. And like the rest of a constantly bestartling supporting cast, led by Jon Voight and Danny DeVito as deliciously disparate masters of legal sleaze, they're terrific. Another good rule is not to take Grisham novels as seriously as the writer does when you bring them to the screen, and Coppola fulfills that imperative too. This one is about a big insurance company trying to cheat a poor family out of medical payments...
...quite realizes what he's doing, Henderson is adopting Emira (played by Emira Nusevic, herself a child of the war), getting her out of the country via a terrifying bus ride through country controlled by Serb guerrillas, then voluntarily, dangerously returning to Sarajevo a year later to complete legal adoption, ensuring that she never has to make this return journey...
...Even most Republicans seem to agree with that. But they see in the dollar-dialing issue what FBI Chief Louis Freeh sees: a legal excuse to keep digging. Freeh's first love is the trail; Reno's is the Constitution and its promise of the protection of individual rights...