Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Legal Scholar Ronald Dworkin [Sept. 5] believes "laws should not be founded on personal moral judgments." He also believes judges should go beyond the explicitly written law and "range widely, asking fundamental questions and applying ethical principles as well as written legal rules to the case." These two statements, taken together, indicate that he believes the people, via legislative bodies, should not decide what is morally right and wrong for society, but that this power should be left to the judges. Thus, to a limited extent, he advocates an increase in government by men as opposed to government...
...Professor George Christie may be right when he says: "Dworkin misconceives what legal decision making is all about. He views it as the search for right answers rather than a process for producing adequate justifications for legal decisions." If so, then America's courts need Ronald Dworkin very badly. The Pledge of Allegiance says "justice for all," not "justifications...
...central crusade against the Carter program is being fought by the National Coalition for Fair Immigration Laws and Practices, an amalgam of several organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Indian Movement. For different reasons, both legal and illegal Hispanic residents find dangers in the Carter plan. Those who hold U.S. citizenship are fearful that the program would empower federal agents to harass Hispanics in general in an intensified search for those without proper papers. If Hispanic leaders accept the five-year work permit idea, insists Alberto Juarez, director of a legal aid program in East...
Harvard's anti-union campaign was always above-board, as befits an institution with a penchant for splitting legal hairs. Yet this only shows further that present labor laws, as they now stand, award considerable advantages to wealthy employers such as Harvard who would rather argue in court for years than grant their employees the benefits of unionization. Harvard's ability to beat District 65, and other unions like it, stems largely from its ability to play the current statutes for all they are worth...
...more difficult for employers such as Harvard to take unfair advantage of their wealth and size to prevent unionization. By speeding up the process by which workers may gain the right to hold organizing elections and by placing limits on the extent to which employers may use dubious legal tactics to avoid bargaining with certified unions, the bill would generally strengthen the hands of unions that have a solid base of support. These changes would not only benefit University workers, but millions of employees nationwide. Congress should pass this legislation, in as strong a form as possible, to make...