Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take on Bryant Drive. Residents and three homeowner associations lost a lawsuit to block the takeover, which is now on appeal. In March the same group filed suit in federal court, alleging a civil rights violation. The state stands prepared to wield the power of eminent domain, a legal term meaning "we can do anything we want." But the Bryants and their neighbors--Gussie Ellis and her family of five, and Pierre Hollingsworth's family of three, which rents from a local minister--are digging in. The street was named after a man who stood for something, Lillian W. said...
...excuse. You cannot blame her parents for not putting her on the Pill, her teachers for not handing her condoms to use when she wanted to have sex, or a political party for wanting to preserve life. Drexler knew she was expecting and had time to have a legal abortion. This horrible disregard for life should leave everyone looking no further than the killer's eyes. LORI ANNE CARTER Georgetown, Ohio...
After the 1993 death of his 19-year-old son Patrick in a grain-silo accident, Hayes set up a support group for families of workers killed on the job. He provides counseling on legal rights and helps cut through bureaucratic red tape. The project has so far aided 300 families in 40 states and, says Hayes, "has helped fill the hole that Patrick left...
...observers still expect the case to be settled out of court. But Bennett's talk of a trial date is a clear sign that the ground is shifting beneath the Jones camp. The tremors began two weeks ago with another high-profile piece of reporting by Stuart Taylor in Legal Times. Taylor's story, and a follow-up article by the New Yorker's Jane Mayer, attacks Jones' credibility by suggesting that her account of what happened when she visited Governor Clinton's hotel suite in 1991 has grown more lurid over time...
American are internationally famous for thier emphasis on rights. IT's as if we invented them, and to a certain extent we did. Justification in our legal system hangs for less on whether an action is good or bad in itself than on whether the agent had a right to act that way. But for such a system to function, it sems crucial that citizens know and be able to defend their liberties. As I spend hours a day listening to people complain of injustice, I am struck by simultaneously-low voter turnout, daily grumbling overheard on the train about...