Word: legalism
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...support putting formal restrictions on the NCAA, we believe that it has a responsibility to its viewers and the public to adhere to a standards befitting a collegiate organization. The beer ads that it runs should promote safe drinking, and it should not target people under the legal drinking age. That said, Faust and the other signatories of this letter have unnecessarily overreacted in their request to formally restrict the NCAA’s advertising. Advertisement is not endorsement, and the NCAA should remain free to air tasteful beer commercials...
...protesters allege that undercover HUPD officers were photographing the demonstration, according to John Reinstein, the legal director of the Massachusetts division of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...
...says, "it might have significant consequences for his or her health and mental health. Even the perception of discrimination can be important because it is self-perpetuating." And if rates of weight discrimination are indeed on the rise, say the authors, then it's up to society to mandate legal protections for those who are overweight, just as laws protect people from discrimination by race, gender, disability...
...went on to discuss the “legal limbo” in which Ambulance LTD is stuck...
...official result hasn't been released. Meanwhile, an opposition attempt to force the High Court to order the release of the results has so far served only to give the commission further grounds for delay. "The question of the results of the presidential election is now the subject of legal proceedings in the High Court," the ZEC said in a statement cited by the state-run Herald newspaper Friday. "Pending determination by that court, and in line with established rules of court, norms and procedures, the commission is unable to comment on this subject...