Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Critics claim Garguilo has been extremely political in her job, citing the time she opposed White's self-serving charter reform package, an item which falls under her broad legal mandate but not within the general public's perception of her duties. Nobody accuses Garguilo of specifically favoring or hounding anyone; it is more an "us" against "her" situation. However, the finance commission operates in a city with few ethical norms in its politics, and to expect it to function without being political is like Sen. Edward R. Brooke (R-Mass.) exploited their position to gain higher office...
...whole. In addition, according to one drug-company lawyer, the DES lawsuits have "many persnickety permutations." Although thousands of young women whose mothers took DES have developed the adenosis formation, so far fewer than 200 of them are known to be suffering from the cancer. One of the first legal complications for most victims in suing, however, is the difficulty in linking an individual pill user with a particular drug company. The drug was never patented, but was sold under its generic name by a number of different companies. Because pharmacy and physician records cannot be located after so many...
...Gesualdo had the U.S. Supreme Court to blame for his difficulties. In the past, an accused criminal wishing to be his own lawyer-to act pro se, in legal terminology-had to convince a judge that he was competent to do the job. But in 1975 the Supreme Court held that the guaranteed right to counsel includes the defendant's right to be his own lawyer. Ruling in Faretta v. California, which concerned a man convicted of auto theft after his plea to defend himself had been denied, the high court said that Anthony Faretta should be retried...
...when the jury acquitted him two weeks ago, Jackson petulantly refused to thank the lawyer. Still another self-defender was Clifford Irving, author of the bogus Howard Hughes biography. He responded to an IRS claim for more than $120,000 in back taxes by composing a 50-page legal brief and arguing the case in court...
...Herbert Hunt, two sons of H.L.'s first marriage, acted in concert with five other Hunts to acquire contracts for future delivery of more than 23 million bushels of soybeans -nearly a third of the nation's expected supply this year and far above the legal limit of 3 million bushels allowed to any one trader or trading group. A federal district court in Chicago will consider this week whether to order the Hunts to reduce their holdings to that limit. The Hunts contend that each family member acted alone and so is entitled to hold the maximum...