Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After drinking heavily, Christopher T. Mirchi, a 21-year-old Radford University student, dies in a fraternity house fire. Mirch's blood alcohol content was 0.25, more than three times the legal limit for drivers in Virginia. Officials believe that alcohol impaired Mirch's ability to sense smoke and flee the fire, reported a Feb. 27 article in the Washington Post...
...year-old first-year at Duquesne University passed out and was taken to a hospital after consuming 16 shots of alcohol. Her blood alcohol level was two and one-half times greater than the legal limit for drivers. Two fraternity members were later banished from university housing for their roles in encouraging the incident, according to a May 2 article in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
Some say Moskowitz has bought quite a few politicians in Israel as well. Although a 1994 law prohibits foreign contributions to political parties, big donors can find ways around the restrictions. Moskowitz was a legal contributor to a movement called the Third Way, which subsequently became a political party that is today part of Netanyahu's ruling coalition. The head of the Third Way, Public Security Minister Avigdor Kahalani, was the man Moskowitz negotiated with last week in the East Jerusalem crisis...
...multiple-choice law-school torts exam, the similarity was hardly coincidental. Even before the FDA urged the recall of Redux (dexfenfluramine)--and Pondimin (fenfluramine), the front half of the fat-pill combo known as fen/phen--scores of lawyers across the nation had already started filing lawsuits. After the recall, the legal assault turned into a stampede. "Everyone saw money," says Jacoby & Meyers' Gail Koff...
Much of this legal furor is being vented against Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, a subsidiary of American Home Products, which makes fenfluramine and distributes dexfenfluramine, and Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, a small Lexington, Mass., firm founded by the M.I.T. neurologist who developed Redux. There's also talk of bringing action against the FDA--though federal law usually protects government officials from suits challenging routine performance of duties like approving drugs. Whatever the outcome of the legal battles, they leave unsettled larger societal questions--about Americans' infatuation with quick-fix remedies for whatever ails them, real or imagined, and their doctors' willingness to cater...