Word: used
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saves $2,040 a year and breaks federal law by not reporting it as income. Eddie, who pays taxes on his earnings as an apartment superintendent in New York City, clears an additional $250 a week in tax-free cash by driving a cab when the owner is not using it. "That's better than making $350 or $400 on the books," he boasts. The cab owner is equally pleased since he pays no taxes on the money that Eddie gives him to "hire the horse," that is, use the taxi...
Dressed in black robes, heralded into court by bailiffs crying "Hear ye! Hear ye! All rise!" and addressed as "Your Honor," judges are imposing, even intimidating. They are supposed to be: they have great power over people's lives, and increasingly, they use...
...usually go to jail if they get caught in Charlotte, N.C., whereas they get probation in Albuquerque, may just reflect different local mores. As New York Criminal Court Judge Harold Rothwax says, "Communities have a right to view crime differently." Mandatory sentences set by the legislature, which several states use for at least some crimes, can be more heavy-handed than evenhanded. Such laws cannot distinguish, for instance, between someone who steals to feed his family and someone who steals for excitement or easy money. But if discretion is something judges need to make the punishment fit the crime...
Laws that spew from legislatures at the rate of over 100,000 a year inevitably mean more lawsuits. Too many lawyers use their skills to drag out cases. The object may be to wear down a less well financed opponent, or put off an unfavorable judgment. Sometimes it is simply a matter of greed, of contriving any excuse to keep fees rolling in. Favorite devices include making endless pretrial motions on one or another point of procedure, obtaining postponements (continuances) from the court, requesting huge amounts of information from the other side in the pretrial discovery process, or just burying...
...home and shows it to a jury at trial. Result: McCrystal tries about three times as many civil jury cases as the average Ohio judge. He has been doing it this way for more than seven years, and he has never been overturned on appeal because of his use of technology. Yet the idea still has not caught on with other judges. Why? "Judges are the roadblock," says McCrystal. "They just say, 'I don't want anything new.' But only they can make this thing work...