Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Princeton is saying 'It's my house--you can't come in.' We're saying that Princeton acts enough like a state so that it should comply with the rules of a state," Jerrold Kamensky, a lawyer acting for the ACLU, said yesterday...
...Boyce who at 21 took matters into his own hands and the Christopher Boyce who composes this letter is that I have discovered a powerful, constructive vehicle to convey my criticisms." His stated ambition: to emigrate to Ireland and support himself as a writer. According to Boyce's lawyer, he was working on a book about prison conditions...
...landmark decision in 1925 by Benjamin Cardozo, then a New York State Court of Appeals judge. Though the rule is sex-blind in principle, men seldom win custody in the 10% of the cases that go to court. "The courts are prejudiced against fathers," insists Leonard Kerpelman, a Baltimore lawyer who champions fathers' rights. "Unless the mother is a prostitute, a drug addict or a mental defective, she is automatically assumed to be the better qualified to have custody...
...death penalty as "cruel and unusual punishment" if it is carried out by injection. But the lethal substance, probably a fast-acting barbiturate mixed with a paralyzing chemical agent, would have to be administered at least indirectly by a physician. And that, charge a Boston doctor and a lawyer, would constitute a cruel and unusual breach of medical ethics...
Despite his publicity campaign, the case was still unsettled when Filartiga arrived at Harvard three years later. The government has revoked the license of the lawyer representing Filartiga, then imprisoned him. Without a lawyer, Filartiga will undoubtedly lose the trial, and, according to Paraguayan law, the loser must pay the damages and the other's legal fees. Such payment will cost him the clinic...