Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legislation supports a same sex marriage resolution by the Lambada Legal Defense and Education Fund, an organization that advocates for lesbian and gay rights...
...SPEAK UP Those who not only join network groups but also stand and deliver before them are in effect advertising their expertise. Wisnik, for example, conducts legal training seminars through the United Jewish Appeal. Attorneys pay a fee to attend the seminars, which raise money for the charity, and Wisnik benefits through client referrals. But what really keeps her going is gratitude. The u.j.a. paid for Wisnik, her parents and her brother to emigrate to the U.S. from Poland 30 years...
...Nesson said he has detected no change in tone on the part of the University since Berkowitz made public his consideration of outside legal action in February...
...Even as the legal representatives met, an elected, three-member Docket Committee of the Faculty continued its consideration of Berkowitz's formal grievance with the University, which was filed...
...very unusual for a wealthy, well-connected person to get the death penalty," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "I don't think there has been a case like this." Celebrated past recipients of the death penalty such as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg or Caryl Chessman were neither rich nor powerful, and gained their status as a consequence of their trials, Cohen says. More recently, capital punishment was pre-emptively rejected in the O.J. Simpson case. But Capano had no legendary gridiron past, and a wholly unpleasant present. Although the scion of a wealthy real estate family and a mover...