Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...institute pioneered the tactic of using constitutional free-speech guarantees as a legal weapon for people claiming they were denied the right to religious expression--a frequently successful court strategy now imitated by other religious-rights advocacy groups. Rutherford's clients have included schoolchildren who wanted to pray over their lunches, a girl who wanted to read her Bible on the school bus and a Hindu who refused jury duty on religious grounds. The group also briefly considered defending Paul Hill, who was convicted of the 1994 murder of a doctor and another man at a Florida abortion clinic...
...lawyer Whitehead got for Jones is Donovan Campbell, a Dallas attorney who has argued other cases for the institute and was a leader in a successful fight 12 years ago to reinstate the Texas law making sodomy a crime. In the Jones case, Campbell is pursuing a distinctly secular legal strategy. He says he plans to make Clinton's relations with women a key issue. He started raking those coals last week, taking the deposition of Gennifer Flowers, who claimed in 1992 to have had a 12-year affair with Clinton...
...riveted the Philadelphia-Wilmington area for a year and a half, mostly because of the small-town renown of its central characters. Thomas Capano, the father of four daughters who separated from his wife Kay in 1995, is an unlikely murder suspect. A former deputy attorney general and legal counsel to ex-Governor Michael Castle, he was most recently employed at a prominent law firm as head of its bond department. "Tom was very much the consummate inside guy," says Charlie Butler, also a former deputy attorney general. "He was always fixing things. He spent a long time making Castle...
...because the biggest obstacles to killing Saddam aren't moral or legal but practical. It's not smart for the U.S., which has a huge stake in world order, to be seen as resorting to a little terror of its own. Unintended consequences often flow from clever plans. Recall Pan Am 103, blown out of the sky allegedly by Libyan agents after Gaddafi almost died from Reagan's bombs...
...puberty. Lookinland, 36--who on the short-lived 1990 dramatic series The Bradys played a race-car driver who was wheelchair-bound owing to an accident--was arrested after flipping his car twice in a drunken-driving incident in Utah. The ex-actor, who had three times Utah's legal blood-alcohol limit, was working as an assistant cameraman on the set of CBS's religious drama Promised Land...