Word: legality
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...more prominent members is attorney Scott Turow, a Harvard Law School graduate renowned for his legal novels. The committee will eventually report its findings and issue recommendations...
...Last week, for the first time, a Chilean judge cut through the veil of fear Pinochet had draped over his country and charged the general with kidnapping. These charges, of course, are only a handful of the more than 100 criminal complaints against Pinochet pending in the Chilean legal system. But they'll do: The case concerns the notorious "caravan of death" in 1973, when a group of senior military officers murdered some 73 political prisoners in the weeks that followed Pinochet's military coup...
...consequences. Before he stepped down in 1990, the general, who ruled at gunpoint from October 1973, had authored an immunity decree for himself to avoid just such an eventuality, and it was only 10 years later that Chile's supreme court found the gumption to strike down this pseudo-legal impunity. The reasons for their caution are plain to see: Many Chileans feared that the generals who'd voluntarily allowed the restoration of democracy in 1990 were simply watching and waiting, and if presented with a distasteful political scenario they might once again demand the keys to the national palace...
Although the U.S. paid little attention to the conference, its failure to reach a conclusion might have a larger impact on the well-being of the average American and citizens around the world than the outcome of the legal battles in the Sunshine state. Shortly before the conference, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the most authoritative body on global warming, issued a preliminary summary of its 2000 report saying that humans "contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years." This is a much stronger language than the wording used in its report five years...
...takes supplemental briefs from Gore and Bush lawyers Tuesday at 3 p.m. on the case SCOTUS sent back to them for retooling, and by then court spokesman Craig Waters will likely have announced the arrival of the Sauls hand-count appeal, which Gore still thinks he can win on legal grounds. Sauls' sweeping "burden of proof" rejection may well have been an acknowledgment that David Boies was going to sue no matter what he did. So Sauls kicked the whole mess upstairs, and it'll be up to Florida's highest court - barring a 5,000-vote Seminole County nuke...