Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Higher education will also endure the first case to seriously challenge the Supreme Court's 1978 ruling in the University of California V. Bakke, the legal foundation for college affirmative action programs...
...Agency for International Development (USAID) sent a letter to HIID director Jeffrey Sachs ordering the institute to "take immediate and reasonable steps to close out all ongoing activities" by Aug. 1 on its two main projects in Russia, which included technical assistance for legal reform and development of capital markets...
...reality of lesbian and gay marriage without legal recognition is not pretty. A partner can be denied the right to visit a lover in the hospital because the partner is neither family nor a spouse. A partner can be denied access to children raised with a lover. A partner can live without medical insurance because an employer does not offer domestic partnership benefits...
Sources: AP; W.N.B.A.; Amnesty International; NBC Nightly News, Aug. 28, 1997; U.S. Dept. of Ed.; Home School Legal Defense Assoc...
LITTLE ROCK: U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright has granted the divorce that lawyers Gilbert Davis and Joseph Cammarata wanted from their client, Paula Jones. But Jones isn't quitting. In fact, she's already interviewing new candidates to take over the legal shepherding of her $700,000 sexual harassment suit...