Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday column, "Single-sex Schools and the Spirit of Title IX," Talia Milgrom-Elcott discusses the legal challenge to an all-girl public school in East Harlem. Milgrom-Elcott finds it ironic that the Title IX civil rights laws can strike down conditions that favour women over...
Reports published in The Boston Herald peg Kruger's blood alcohol level at .410, more than five times the legal limit in Massachusetts...
...Proposition 209 became law on Aug. 28," said Joe Mandel, vice chancellor of legal affairs. "The Proposition will remain law unless the U.S. Supreme Court rules it to be unconstitutional...
...Clinton, the mere prospect of an investigation means a serious deepening of his permanent state of legal siege. If Reno eventually calls for an independent counsel, this one would be the first to investigate Clinton himself, not just a member of his Cabinet or a wide-ranging mess like Whitewater that may or may not center on him. And unlike the Whitewater probe, with its endless sifting of a land deal that started in the days of sideburns and bell-bottoms, this one would be investigating actions that Clinton undertook while President...
...cash because soft money, designated for general party-building activities, is easier to come by: donations aren't as strictly limited in size as they are with hard money for individual races. But moving that money pushed many donors, who had already made hard-money contributions, over their legal limits. Once it was apparent that Clinton's calls suggested the same problem as Gore's, Reno decided she could not treat the President any differently from the Vice President. She ordered the review. But she did extend the President one consideration. Though she promptly made public the Gore review...