Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALTHOUGH most legal experts disagree about what the final result will be, the Supreme Court will most likely decide the case on the basis of a procedural technicality rather than on the proper constitutional distribution of power between the branches...
After several legal challenges, the four-year-old board compelled five patrolmen to testify about their conduct for the first time on Thursday night. Superior Court Judge Joseph Mitchell confirmed the panel's right to subpoena in August...
William A. Golon, executive secretary of the Police Review Board, said he "hadn't seen anything in writing" about the unions' grievances. Golon said he did not think the officers' interrogation by the civilian board conflicts with their city contract. "The city solicitor signs the subpoenas, so the legal department at City Hall doesn't think it's true," he added...
...vote after vote, the administration supported measures which many and, in some cases, the majority of Republicans voted against. The Reagan administration repeatedly tried to eliminate the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which is the major source of federal legal assistance for the poor. Lawyers funded by the LSC routinely prevent families from being unfairly evicted from their homes and citizens from being illegally denied benefits...
...whether he dared to take on the third pillar of Soviet power: the security establishment. An answer of sorts came at the party plenum two weeks ago. In a blitzkrieg shake-up of the leadership, Gorbachev named KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov, 65, head of a new commission on legal reform. Deputy KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, 64, leap-frogged over two more senior officials to get Chebrikov's vacant post...