Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While giving to the state parties is perfectly legal, congressional investigators may question the motives of donors: Was it done to camouflage a money-for-favors deal? TIME's survey of state records shows that Lindner wasn't alone. Las Vegas casino owner Steve Wynn, who according to FEC records gave $35,000 to the D.N.C., sprinkled 10 times that amount last fall to seven state Democratic parties, including Georgia and Colorado. Wynn wanted to limit the subpoena power of a new federal gambling commission. Clinton initially favored giving the panel broad investigative authority to study casinos and their books...
...without any money, the sweeping settlement is a crucial moment in three decades of public and private efforts in court to combat tobacco use. Critics first relied on research and education to counter smoking--a tactic that produced plenty of posters but not much change in consumers' habits. Legal attacks proved more successful. "We were always outgunned at first," says John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University and founder of Action on Smoking & Health, an antitobacco group. But that nose-to-nose approach led to victories ranging from bans on smoking in public places to Liggett's surrender...
...affirmed, it would totally change the journalistic and legal landscape," First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams told the Journal. Dow Jones has $45 million in libel coverage for this case. Because libel law puts a heavy burden of proof on the accuser, most awards are reduced or thrown out on appeal, and the Journal is hoping that pattern holds. "We were chronicling the difficulties of this company; we did not cause them," managing editor Paul Steiger said in a statement...
...course, whether it's good or bad for the A.C.L.U. that some Justices know a Website from a legal cite probably won't be known for months. The Justices will rule sometime before the court's summer recess--usually by July 4. Meantime, in the absence of any clear constitutional law in cyberspace, at least 17 states have passed or are considering their own legislation to regulate the Net. New York enacted a law last year that resembles the CDA. In Virginia it's now illegal for state employees--including state-college professors--to access "sexually explicit" materials online. That...
Surely the calls that Vice President Al Gore '69 made from his office in the West Wing were illegal? Guess again. For the same reasons that the coffees and the sleepovers are legal, Gore's calls fall within the limits...