Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students editors across the country said the legal action could pose a threat to all state-affiliated newspapers because it argues that newspapers at public universities are essentially "governmental bodies" and are bound to the same restrictions as all public agencies...
...complaint concerning the freedom to advertise off-campus is one of a series of legal actions the Tribune has filed against the Daily...
Michael C. Hiestand, an attorney at the Student Press Law Center--a Washington, D.C. legal non-profit that tried to informally mediate the dispute--said that the open records decision might actually benefit college newspapers. While in this case allowing access to public records may hurt the paper, the right to view government documents is generally of great benefit to reporters, he said...
Gartner said that the Daily's growing revenue under an increasingly professionalized staff forced the Tribune to seek legal action...
...same Senate floor, bills to clean up the finance laws that facilitated shady but legal practices are left to wither while legal, if dubious actions are given undue attention...