Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classmates "Most Likely Not to Be Forgotten"--Cunanan moved on to the University of California at San Diego, where he majored in history. During his freshman year, his world fell apart. According to court papers filed last year by Cunanan's mother MaryAnn, who was then seeking a legal separation, Andrew's father fled to the Philippines in 1988 because he was about to be arrested for "misappropriating" $106,000 from his stock-brokerage business. (San Diego police say they have no record of a charge against him.) Though for the next six years Modesto sent MaryAnn...
...that such a book could have been a best seller. But he was steadfast. "I won't do a book like that," he would say. He was too loyal to his clients to tell tales, too genuinely humble to brag and too idealistic to believe celebrity defined a successful legal career...
...Auto Body, another tenant at the Windom St. property is also considering legal action, citing experiences similar to Fastnet's--unanswered requests for repairs and permits, according to the company's attorney...
...Cosby's massive fortune. But that defense was dealt a blow when Judge Barbara Jones ruled the issue of paternity was irrelevant to the extortion charge, though the judge allowed the defense to argue that the defendant believed the actor was her father and that she had a legal right to his money. However, the $40 million that Jackson had demanded evidently struck jurors as patently avaricious. Jurors also listened to a tape of a phone conversation recorded by Ms. Jackson in January in which she haggled with Cosby's lawyer, threatening "I have offers and I will go through...
...Thursday after living all but nine of this century's years, from opponents and admirers alike there was little but marvel at the career of one of the most brilliant and influential justices in America's history. But seemingly foremost among the characteristics his colleagues recalled was the formidable legal mind who was utterly lovable. "I was not what might be called a Brennan liberal," Justice David H. Souter, who replaced Brennan, recalled in 1992. "I did not know what kind of reception I would get from him. He saw me standing in the outer reception room and he came...