Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worth the commotion. "Remember, we already had (DNC Finance Director) Richard Sullivan testify that John Huang assured Gore's staff that this wasn't going to be a fundraiser," she said. "People tend to forget that if the nuns' contributions went into a soft money account, they're perfectly legal even if they are foreign contributions. The nuns will provide some interesting testimony which will look bad for Huang," she said. "But so far as nailing Gore or anybody else, I don't think that's going to happen...
...national N.A.A.C.P.'s directors last year because he had proclaimed that "busing may have outlived its usefulness." In Yonkers segregated schools have been eliminated. But that outcome came years into litigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the N.A.A.C.P., which has cost the city about $37 million in legal expenses. And today black and Hispanic students still test two grade levels below their white schoolmates...
...murmured support for separate-but-equal education is growing more audible within the N.A.A.C.P., it may be because so little progress has been made since those historic days. Says Ted Shaw, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "You're beating your head up against the wall until it's bloody. At some point you have to ask, 'Should I continue to beat up against this wall?' To ask that question is not a terrible thing...
Jackson's attorney, Robert M. Baum, hopes to convince jurors that Jackson fervently believes Cosby is her father; that as a result of her belief, she "felt that she possessed certain legal and moral rights"; and that her petitions for money were a "negotiation," not an extortion. To buttress these claims, Baum's opening statement walked the jury through a lengthy history of contacts between Cosby and both Jackson and her mother, Shawn Thompson. Baum said it was Cosby who suggested Thompson list her former boyfriend, Gerald Jackson, as the father on Autumn's birth certificate. (Cosby's attorney denies...
...year from big brother Philip Morris helped keep him quiet. In 1995, with tobacco companies embroiled in a massive suit with state attorneys general, Philip Morris came knocking on the door of his financially troubled company. The larger firm said it would generously help out with Liggett's legal bills if LeBow would keep his restless conscience out of court. Philip Morris "didn't pay his bills out of the goodness of their heart," charged attorney Stanley Rosenblatt, who is representing flight attendants suing the tobacco industry over second-hand smoking ills suffered in airplanes. "That was a means...