Word: legalism
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...marriage to Nicole Brown Simpson. Police officers, judges, doctors and lawyers have begun to get educated about the "battered woman's syndrome"--the psychological dependency that keeps a spouse trapped in a violent relationship, repeatedly forgiving her abuser and even sometimes blaming herself for the attacks. In recent years, legal protections for victims of domestic abuse have also been dramatically strengthened in ways that might have averted the Weekley tragedy. The 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which was part of the federal crime law, made grants to states contingent in part on tougher domestic-violence laws. But, cautions Bonnie Campbell...
...Murder One (ABC) Chronicling three consecutive trials rather than a single one all season, the revamped legal thriller returned more clearly focused and more energetically paced. The real bonus? The arrival of Anthony LaPaglia as the brash, ethically messy Wyler...
...logical reason why three or four people who say 'We sincerely love each other' should be denied this status," he explains. Gay-rights groups also expect wide repercussions, though of a very different kind. "This decision was an extraordinary turning point," declares Evan Wolfson, an attorney at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who served as co-counsel for the three couples, "because we now have in the cool, clear light of a courtroom a judge saying that there is no reason for government discrimination in marriage...
According to legal experts, however, the right of gay couples to marry in Hawaii won't have a broad impact on the mainland for some time to come. The state supreme court's decision has no binding effect as a precedent in other states, though gays elsewhere could invoke the persuasiveness of its reasoning. Other states remain free to set gender-based restrictions on marriage because the U.S. Supreme Court has never decided whether the Federal Constitution bans such restrictions. (The high courts of several states have ruled that it does...
...GEORGE SOROS The financier, who fled Hungary in 1956, gave $50 million to create the Emma Lazarus Fund to help legal immigrants become U.S. citizens, nearly $15 million to help change the nation's drug policy and at least $35 million to charitable projects in Russia. (See also Susan Soros, No. 7, below.) Total: $100 million...