Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dershowitz has also given time recently to a different legal dispute, one of a more personal nature...
...legal dispute could bring Dershowitz the publicity he will likely receive courtesy of an upcoming guest appearance on a popular daytime television drama. A veteran of both the Geraldo Rivera and Morton Downey Jr. shows, Dershowitz will return to the airwaves as a special consultant to People's Court Judge Joseph Wapner...
...mass exodus is no joke. In the past, the trickle of legal refugees primarily involved senior citizens, which was East Germany's way of palming off some of its pension burden on the capitalist West. But the loss of so many young professionals presents East Germany with the prospect of a serious brain drain...
Alaska v. Exxon et al is likely to break some courtroom records. Robert LeResche, who heads the state's investigation of the spill, believes the legal wrangling will last at least a decade. "Out of the approximately 150 suits filed against Exxon, this is the big one," says Bryan Jacoboski, who follows the oil industry for Paine Webber. "It will keep Exxon's stock from going anywhere for a long time...
...timber industry accepted the plan, but environmentalists rejected it, arguing that they would be giving up their legal rights to fight the logging companies. Nonetheless, Hatfield introduced the plan in Congress. It has already cleared the Senate and is awaiting consideration by a House-Senate conference committee. Notes Andy Kerr, conservation director of the Oregon Natural Resource Council: "The pressures on the politicians are tremendous. The Oregon delegation is having to deal with timber in l989 the way the Mississippi delegation had to deal with civil rights...