Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Slavica Ecclestone confirmed she will divorce her husband Bernie Ecclestone, the former chief of Formula One racing, whose fortune is estimated at $3.6 billion. Lawyers are already predicting that Slavica could walk away with half of her husband's fortune, making it the highest settlement to a spouse in legal history. It's unknown whether they signed a prenuptial agreement...
...high-stakes political-legal drama obscured Holder's role at the time, but details emerged in later reporting for a book, Truth at Any Cost, that I co-authored with Susan Schmidt. That account was based on interviews with Starr, his staff and senior Justice Department officials, including Holder - as is this article...
...Holder seemed deflated by the criticism but determined to recover his reputation among Clintonites. He approved the DOJ's legal backing of a unique privilege that the Secret Service claimed early on to keep its agents from testifying before the grand jury about Lewinsky's visits to the Oval Office - a legal ploy that Holder privately acknowledged to Bennett was a long shot, and which was ultimately rejected by federal courts...
...facilitate the event, and hopefully people leave here with a genuine interest or thought about the points we discussed.” Khan’s written work, which focuses primarily on sex culture and sex workers, includes a dissertation on how nonlegal domains come to bear on the legal regulation of sadomasochism. Her current research considers the social and cultural impact of “Janes” (sex workers) and “Johns” (clients) on the stigmatization of the sex work field, particularly taking into consideration the influence of the film industry...
...since the start of Saddam Hussein's trial have Iraqis been so transfixed by a legal and legislative debate. The to-and-fro over the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the U.S. has turned parliamentary politics into prime-time entertainment. In restaurants and caf?s across Baghdad, TV screens normally featuring music videos and Arabic soap operas are instead tuned to Iraqi news channels that seem at times to be devoted exclusively to the SOFA story. It's democracy as reality...