Word: legally
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...throughout her career, Marshall has shown that she has a remarkable ability to do what judges are supposed to do--uphold the law. Her record shows an unrivaled depth and breadth of experience, legal and otherwise. In a July opinion, she upheld a law refusing health benefits to domestic partners while also pointing out that the law on the books may be outdated; she wrote, "A 'family' may no longer be constituted simply of a wage-earning father, his dependent wife and the couple's children...
Stuntz has spoken often at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., and has also lectured on the relationship between Christianity and legal theory. He said he hopes to write further on overcriminalization in modern America, as well as legal regulation of the police...
...fact, if he were faced with a choice between the two, Stuntz said he would have hoped to choose to learn about the American legal system through the everyday proceedings in the Keystone State...
...Iran?s relations with the rest of the world. Given Washington?s desire to strengthen his reformist government against its hard-line opponents, the U.S. would be unlikely to take military action against Iran unless there were fresh acts of terrorism." Better that the unfettered and somewhat crude Saudi legal system handle the matter than risk upsetting a relatively docile Iran...
...Hague, on charges of ethnic cleansing against Muslims in the town of Mostar in 1993. But the Croats have been dragging their feet, claiming that Naletilic is too ill to stand trial and charging him with lesser offenses in a Croatian court in order to jam up the legal process. "Sakic symbolizes a past era, but ?Tuta? is very much alive and would probably have some very interesting things to tell the Hague Tribunal about Tudjman and some of Croatia?s generals," says Anastasijevic. Until Croatia faces up to its recent past, the Sakic verdict will look like window dressing...