Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to a Harvard Law School (HLS) press release, the award--the highest given by the HLSA--recognizes long-term extraordinary service to the public, the legal profession...
...wonder why. Dallas Cowboys tycoon Jerry Jones, who says he has people highlight passages in books for him so that he doesn't have to read any, gave $1 million to the Library of Congress last Wednesday. Financier George Soros spent some $2 million last year toward making marijuana legal for medical use. Now comes leveraged-buyout mogul Ted Forstmann, who together with Wal-Mart heir John Walton is spending $100 million to give 40,000 scholarships to disadvantaged children who want an alternative to public school. This week the Children's Scholarship Fund will announce that it has been...
...Rock, Ark., when federal judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that Clinton had shown contempt toward her court when he lied in a deposition about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. But for a President who told Dan Rather he doesn't consider the impeachment vote a "badge of shame," the legal slap may amount to a footnote in the saga...
Starr's pursuit of Steele is a puzzle. Some legal observers have wondered why Starr is so willing to go to the mat for Willey that he has made Steele's indictment the only one from the Lewinsky phase of his investigation that he is pursuing, even though she has never been more than a peripheral potential witness undercutting the claims of another peripheral witness in a civil case that is now history...
While the students at UCLA have not received benefits like those at Ann Arbor or Wisconsin, they recently won a major legal battle when UCLA TAs and other graduate teachers voted to be represented by an affiliate...