Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...legal matter here is easier to deal with than the question of his awareness of good and evil. The influences on the boy at home could have armed him with the urge for revenge. But how aware was he of a wrong act? And did he understand that death is irreversible? If he did, how can he be absolved of knowing the consequences...
...soon to tell how judges will treat the SEC's recent wave of them. "Messages on stock bulletin boards are nothing more than graffiti," argues Mark Werksman, a lawyer for one of the California defendants. "Posting them is an exercise in free speech that imposes no clear legal obligation...
...Colt, his mother and fellow law students, their travails with the SEC have already cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, depleting their savings, which is why the agency waived further penalty. At Georgetown law there are plans for workshops starting next month on "the ethical responsibilities of lawyers" in a high-tech environment, including trading securities on the Internet. The school has not yet decided whether enrollment will be mandatory...
...been just two years since Katie Couric's husband Jay Monahan died of colon cancer at age 42. Looking back, the popular co-host of NBC's Today show recalls that the only clue they had that anything might be wrong was that Monahan, who worked as a TV legal analyst, often felt tired and achy. That wasn't too surprising. He'd been busy covering O.J. Simpson's civil trial for MSNBC, shuttling back and forth between California and the home he shared in New York City with Katie and their two young daughters. Says Couric: "We thought...
...terrible twos, are less articulate, less mentally developed, than a reasonably accomplished chimpanzee or bonobo (pygmy chimp), each of whom would easily outdistance the twins in communication skills, memory and complex consciousness of the world around them. So: Should the chimps, who possess better minds, have some of the legal protections that the twins, by birth, enjoy...