Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure is growing for the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to move faster, before any investors go bust, or turn to mob moneylenders. The danger, of course, is that a combination of greed and need will overcome caution and good intentions, making it easier for the underworld to penetrate legal gambling in Atlantic City...
...last winter, "and we will make sure that those that are written are in plain English for a change." The spark ignited by the President has been slow to take hold. The U.S., after all, is a land flowing with torts and breaches, and much in thrall to the legal profession. But the forces of hereinafter, res ipsa loquitur and-party of the first part are now clearly on the defensive...
...January 20, the case raises a number of disturbing questions. One important question concerns the structure of the trial itself. The judge instructed the lawyers and the jury that the trial was to have two parts, and in the first part the Indians would have to prove their legal status as a tribe. It is unclear why the judge felt it necessary to determine the legal status of Wamponoags at all, for the Massachusetts state government and the federal government have both implicitly recognized the Wamponoag's tribal status...
BEYOND THE LEGAL QUESTION of the Wamponoags' tribal status lies a more serious moral question. Is it possible for a group of people unconsciously conditioned by their own cultural and racial assumptions to judge objectively an alien racial and cultural group? Do they have the right to sit in judgment at all? Ellsworth Oakley, tribal chief of the Mashpee Wamponoags, posed this very question: "How can a white jury decide for us? We know who we are." The sessions of the trial consistently revealed the difficulty of cross-cultural evaluation. At one point during the proceedings, James D. St. Clair...
Rabkin, the author of the guidelines, is now meeting with legal counsel employed by the hospital in order to revise the guidelines which he will then submit once again to the hospital's resuscitation committee for approval...