Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this Court--and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives." Someday we'll know whether the right to abortion will be chipped to nothing by the Roberts Court--or whether, as some legal theorists predict, the issue fades away with the arrival of further advances in contraception. As for the actual decision that provoked Ginsburg, it's a stretch to think that it will be central to the lives of women...
...become clear that the Democrats are taking the middle road, allowing the wiretapping to continue but with new legal hurdles for the snoopers and additional oversight by the courts. This effectively boils down to the Dems' saying, We don't mind what you are doing--we just don't like the way you did it. A bill by Democratic Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan would require getting a warrant to listen to calls of suspected terrorists in the U.S. But the act would authorize most other warrantless intercepts of calls between targets or suspects overseas and phones...
...Congress is equally vague: In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress defines religion as “a belief [that] must be sincerely held, and within the believer’s own scheme of things religious.” It is easy to see how either of these legal definitions could apply to most of the 4,000 or more world religions. So where did the VA go wrong...
...issue on break time a priority.” Cotton added that the committee would likely not take the matter into consideration until its next scheduled meeting, though he did not rule out the possibility of an emergency session. Attorney Christine Collins, who represented Currier, said she thought the legal victory would extend beyond Currier’s the specific case. “It’s up to them really,” Collins said, “However, the board has been quite clear in its arguments that the appeals court orders have far reaching implications...
...student groups—restrictions that will paralyze the UC’s ability to foster campus life. As part of its new measures, Harvard will not provide any money to fund events at which alcohol is present unless there is a Beverage Authorization Team present to enforce the legal drinking age, nor will it disburse funds collected from the $75 student activities fee prior to the UC’s submission of receipts for a given event. On the other side, the UC seems to have lost all faith in University Hall. Beyond a sheer lack of diplomacy...