Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have one of those small [legal] halogens with a plastic cover now," says Song...
...This behavior is not acceptable and has no place in the University, the Law School or the legal profession," Clark said in the letter. "It is important that differing points of view be debated here, but the debate must be carried out in a civilized manner...
WASHINGTON: So far unable to sink the Clintons in Whitewater, independent counsel Kenneth Starr now appears to be seeking evidence that the first couple tried to obstruct his investigation ? a legal strategy that's more palatable than prosecuting the President for a decade-old land deal, says Jef McAllister, TIME's White House correspondent. "Accusations of abuse of presidential power and conspiracy bring the Whitewater investigation right into the White House in a way the original allegations never could," says McAllister...
Until now, the casinos have taken advantage of federal laws that allow Native American tribes to duplicate any form of gambling currently legal in the surrounding states, laws which have allowed them to build casinos reminiscent of Las Vegas-plush carpets, smoky rooms and an atmosphere outside of time. Soon, however, there are subtle differences: the motifs are of dreamcatchers and cacti, and the rooms are labeled with Native American names. More importantly, the casinos' impact can be felt beneficially 50 miles away, in the low-income neighborhoods of San Diego...
...motivating logic of Title IX-to ensure that women have the opportunity to become such self-confident and self-reliant people, as men have-forces us, as thinking citizens, to re-evaluate the relationship between law, its goals and its application. There has always been a tension in legal decision-making between a strict construction, privileging the letter of the law, and a looser one, in which a more flexible understanding of the law's intention dominates. Perhaps the Young Women's Leadership School is an example of when the letter of the law must give way to a more...