Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...risen dramatically in the past three years. Faced with what seemed like no alternatives, many tenants who were foreclosed upon accepted “cash for keys” deals, in which the bank paid the occupant a small sum in return for the occupant signing away the legal right to remain in the home...
...federal judge, Bybee, 55, led the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel from November 2001 to March 2003 and signed off on a 2002 memo, recently released by the Obama Administration, authorizing the rough stuff in clinical detail. Along with his deputy John Yoo, Bybee infamously claimed that interrogation practices aren't legally torture unless they inflict pain resembling that of "serious physical injury" such as organ failure or death. While supporters say the policies helped keep the country safe in the wake of Sept. 11, critics say the memos are illegal and helped pave...
...Returned to the Justice Department as Assistant Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel...
...pretty gentle soul. If you wanted to compare him to a personality, it would not be Donald Rumsfeld. He would be quieter, more reflective, quite temperate." -Douglas Kmiec, former Office of Legal Counsel head. (New York Times, June...
...mother, said. “I am pleased that she got the opportunity to work over the summer in a field she’s interested in,” she said. Liu will use the money from the award to work this summer at the Legal Resources Centre, a nongovernmental organization in South Africa...