Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rulings. In two cases decided by 5-to-4 votes, the court handed a major defeat to defendants charged under federal drug and racketeering laws -- and to their attorneys. The high bench ruled that prosecutors may confiscate the assets that such a person intends to use for his legal defense if the property was gained through criminal activity. Under the rulings, the assets may even be temporarily frozen before the defendant is tried or convicted. Such seizures do not violate the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, wrote Justice White, because an accused has no right "to spend another person...
WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court yesterday prolonged the drama surrounding the fate of legal abortions, postponing until Monday any word in the most closely-watched high court case of the decade...
Baseball's lawyers argued that Giamatti had not yet decided the case; that legal precedent was on the commissioner's side; and that Rose was merely trying for a delay through "desperate efforts to avoid facing the merits of this matter...
Finally, Bhutto urged that the association build "an international machinery to protect human rights and principles of justice and due process of law," to give legal force to its moral goals...
With picturesque characters like Sorrowful the Bookmaker, Philly the Weeper and Harry the Horse, Damon Runyon made gambling a rollicking game. Americans bet $32 billion with bookies every year, and an additional $17 billion on legal lotteries. Gamblers will always gamble, the states often say when they enter the racket, just before they start advertising for more gamblers. Speaking of myths, legends and lies, the Government's famous plan to supplant Harry the Horse in the bookie business should never have been taken seriously. Harry has always given the customers something that Lotto and OTB never will. Credit...