Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zeal of investigators and prosecutors and make a face-saving settlement impossible. And Columbia, which is based in Nashville, Tenn., was reportedly exploring a merger with Tenet Healthcare of Santa Barbara, Calif., the country's second largest hospital company. That deal would have been threatened by Columbia's prospective legal problems...
...everyone from the Thomas Cook travel agency (trinkets for Memphis tours) to the state of Mississippi (Elvis-shaped flower arrangements) to fan clubs in Kuala Lumpur to the Federal Government of the U.S. (in a dispute over licensing the popular 1993 Elvis stamp). The Presley cases remain the legal precedent most often cited when other stars' estates attempt to lay cease-and-desist orders on "infringers," making EPE a hero to many a Hollywood...
...Nothing has really changed at all," Dugdale said. "All Yale has done is exploit a certain legal technicality...
...important to separate what the judge's recommendation does and doesn't mean," said Scott Saul, spokesperson for GESO. "Yale's motion does exploit a legal technicality in applying labor law to graduate teachers, but it doesn't contest that graduate teachers are protected employees of the University...
Before Fred Thompson became a celebrity in his biggest role ever--a hard-nosed U.S. Senator rooting out foreign influences in American politics--he was just a little ol' lawyer with Arent Fox, a D.C. firm that at the time did legal and lobbying work for several foreign governments and various overseas corporations. According to documents Thompson and Arent Fox filed with the Department of Justice, Thompson's duties included lobbying for Haitian President JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE, who hired Arent Fox in October 1991 shortly after his government was overthrown by a military coup. As the firm lobbied U.S. officials...