Word: legality
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...trial court is a tricky business. Appellate courts must be careful about second-guessing lower courts on facts, which the trial judge has often seen firsthand. They have more leeway in reversing for mistakes of law. The Florida justices shrewdly based their decision on what they say were legal mistakes by Judge Sauls on standard of review and burden of proof. Decisions of the canvassing boards do not deserve the highly deferential "abuse of discretion" standard Judge Sauls applied in deciding not to second-guess them, the Florida justices said. Better still, the court found that he wrongly held...
...court also waged a frontal assault on Judge Sauls' fact finding. The justices rejected his conclusion that Gore had not met his burden of showing that sufficient legal votes were rejected to warrant a recount. In part, they relied on what they called "the ultimate Catch-22" in Judge Sauls' approach: he had concluded there were not enough rejected votes without ever looking at the ballots themselves...
...that, you see. Kind of touchy--unbalanced, really. When a politician we don't like--Al Gore, in this case--goes to court to try, for the first time in history, to overturn the certified result of a presidential election, and then launches a raft of novel and fallacious legal theories to muddy the clear intent of legally passed statutes, and finally enlists the aid of a politically sympathetic team of state supreme court judges to count the votes and count them again until the tally makes him the winner--well, we conservatives just refuse to do the gentlemanly thing...
...been Antley's first brush with the law. Two months earlier, police stopped him after he drove his green Jeep Cherokee erratically through downtown Pasadena. He admitted to having drunk an entire bottle of vodka and had a breath-alcohol content of 0.26%, more than three times the legal limit. A more serious run-in came in October, when Tyler summoned police to the house claiming Antley had been talking about going to the airport to pick up his wife Natalie, saying "I'm going to do away with...
Environmentalists, for their part, fret that Clinton wasted too much time before addressing some of the more serious problems--possibly leaving them in the hands of a Bush presidency. "There is a tremendous amount of environmental damage the next Administration could do," says Jim Angell, staff attorney for Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, who is fighting a challenge in federal court to the designation of five national-monument sites in the West...