Word: legalism
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...grounds of fear of persecution, he was denied and has been appealing the judgment since then. Professor Baber Johansen—who received the e-mail—said that it is unlikely that Munir will return. “There was very little hope for any legal help in this, and that the one thing one could hope is that somehow the immigration would let him finish his degree at Harvard,” he said. “It’s very, very uncertain.” Classmates were surprised when they heard about Munir?...
...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...