Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After five weeks of legal wrangling, the end is finally near...
...extraordinary social-policy issue, you sensationalized the subject. Many children continue to suffer abuse in their own and foster homes, often because people who are aware of this mistreatment do not report it to appropriate government authorities. Why not remind all of us of our moral and legal obligations and the ways and means to fulfill them? Without intervention, abuse and neglect of a child often escalate over time. There is also a need for more foster and adoptive homes to accommodate the number of children unable to be cared for in their own homes. Opening one's home...
...blue blood as the rest of us, with Scalia and Breyer holding up the battle flags. When Scalia stepped out front to say the words Gore didn't want to hear - "a majority of the court... believe that the petitioner has a substantial probability of success," some legal experts called it the understatement of the year. On Monday, the highest court in the land was going to call the game...
...often the decisive votes in extremely controversial cases, including recent abortion-rights rulings. Don't expect to read any grand political statements into either of these Justices' votes; Kennedy, in particular, seems inured to the political ramifications of Court rulings, and tends to examine each case on a purely legal and intellectual level - more so than other Justices whose political connections render them far easier to read...
...Despite Monday's slap-down of Judge Guzman, Pinochet's legal road ahead remains blighted. To be sure, he's unlikely to elicit much sympathy from the same Chilean Supreme Court that last August stripped the general of the immunity from prosecution he'd authored for himself as a precondition for stepping down in 1990. Of course it's quite possible that the high court will uphold Monday's technical ruling, but its August decision presumably leaves the field open to Pinochet's accusers to simply keep trying. And that would leave the general's attorneys to fall back...