Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dispute over hiring has also raised questions about the authority of the Board of Trustees. Although the Trustees have legal responsibility for the governance of PBHA, the College has retained the right to approve all the Board's decisions...
...addition, there has been mention of a possible legal challenge over the organization's name, should PBHA attempt to retain its moniker...
...James Palace swore they'd seen Diana in an oil painting there. Around the world, the public absorption with Diana's death made itself felt. The U.S. Senate passed a resolution honoring her for "compassion and grace". The Ecuadorian Congress unanimously passed an anti-paparazzi law providing legal protection for people whose photographs "appear in the media without their prior consent and are damaging to them." And in Uniontown, Pa., two men were charged with harassment and disorderly conduct for allegedly attacking a photographer who was trying to take pictures of a doctor charged with molesting his patients...
...Police reports that chauffer Henri Paul was driving after having consumed nearly four times the French legal alcohol limit may have deflected some attention from the photographers, but lawyers for the seven continue to protest that their clients are being unfairly characterized as "paparazzi." They insist the snappers were on the scene after the crash, rather than being involved in a high-speed chase of Diana's car. One even claims his client actually checked the Princess's pulse while taking pictures of the wreckage. If this is true, it may save the photographer's skin as far as France...
Investigators said that Henri Paul, the Ritz Hotel's number two security man, had a blood alcohol level of 1.7 grams per liter of blood ? more than three times the legal limit. Paul was not Fayed's regular driver, who was instead used as a decoy for the paparazzi that were hounding the couple...