Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Fried's previous course offerings covered a wide area, including appellate advocacy, labor law, legal philosophy and medical ethics. Fried said with his new professorship, he'll likely stick to his strengths...
Still, Fried's previous course offerings covered a wide area, including appellate advocacy, labor law, legal philosophy and medical ethics. Fried said with his new professorship, he'll likely stick to his strengths...
This year's visiting fellows include Morris Baller, a civil rights lawyer and law professor; Robert E. Banks, the director of the legal and advocacy department at Gay Men's Health Crisis; Eileen Brewer, a lawyer for the Cook County Board of Commissions who initiated the county's lawsuit against tobacco manufacturers and Kathryn A. Ellis, a department of education lawyer...
...America and guns has never been higher. There comes a time in every civilization when people have had enough of a bad thing, and the difference between this moment and previous spasms of reform is that it springs from the grass roots and is not driven by politicians or legal institutions. Gun-control sentiment is everywhere in the country these days--in the White House, the presidential campaigns, the legislatures, the law courts and the gun industry itself. But it seems nowhere more conspicuous than in the villages, the houses of worship and the consensus of the kitchen...
There are other, absolutely legal tricks available to the industry. Bill Anderson, of BankRate.com was surprised to learn that as a reward for mailing in his credit-card payment on time, he would have less time each month to pay. Ron Stadelman has another tale of woe. Last summer the Cary, Ill., real estate agent transferred his balance to a Household Visa card with a 10.4% rate. But within a few months, his account, among others, was purchased by Fleet Bank, which gradually hiked the rate to 26.9% and said Stadelman couldn't close the account until he paid...