Word: legally
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...growing popularity of do-it-yourself legal aid certainly seems to have caught the eyes of Texas. The court panel, which enforces a statute against the unauthorized practice of law, initially won a 1992 ban against a manual that contained forms and instructions for creating a will. More recently, the committee sued Parsons Technology, an Iowa company that markets Quicken Family Lawyer software. The case is pending. And in a letter to Nolo last year, the panel expressed concern about the company's Living Trust Maker--2.0 software, which has sold 175,000 copies nationally. Panel chairman Mark Ticer, whose...
Consumer advocates are worried that if Texas prevails, suits in other states will follow. "The truth is that millions of Americans are priced out of the legal system," says attorney James Turner, executive director of HALT (Help Abolish Legal Tyranny), a consumer group that works for the reform of legal practices. "Texas is endangering the rights of its citizens to get accurate, timely information that can help them handle their own legal problems...
...1960s and '80s. (The Justice Department, however, recently began a probe of illicit payments allegedly made to radio stations by Latin-music giant Fonovisia Records.) Pay-for-play is done out in the open, with the money going to the station, not the deejay. And it's all perfectly legal. Under FCC rules, such payments are O.K., so long as the station identifies the song as paid for, usually with a brief announcement ("This record was brought to you by...") before or after the song. It's a record-industry version of those infomercials you see on late-night...
...part of this for Paula Jones is that, unless the legal commentators are underestimating the chances of her case on appeal, she is going to go down in history with her old nose. I am reminded of the young woman who had the misfortune to be with Nelson Rockefeller when he suffered a fatal heart attack. Wisely, she fled the press hounds, but the only picture of her that photo editors could find to run incessantly made her look rather lumpish. I could imagine her, safe in some unused summer house, fighting the temptation to return just long enough...
LONDON: Britain's bid to persuade France to hand over a loose-lipped former MI5 spy may flounder on a simple legal point -- the "crime" of which David Shayler is accused is not illegal in France. When Shayler threatened to use the Web to expose the inner workings of Britain's spy agency, London sought extradition in order to try Shayler under its draconian Official Secrets Act, which gags former government employees. Shayler was arrested in France over the weekend, and the British government now has 40 days to convince a French court to carry out the extradition...