Word: repossession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced in mid-1996 it was going to repossess the space the daycare center had used on the HLS campus. The eviction left the center's 43 young charges and their parents seeking a new site...
...hoping for a quick profit--precisely the point I tried to illustrate with mcdonalds.com Predictably, the lawyers arrived and created a new field: Internet law. One enterprising company, NetNames International, even specializes in "domain-name recovery" and claims to have a stable of 60 attorneys worldwide standing by to repossess ill-gotten names. Not wanting quittner.com to fall into the wrong hands, I decided to procure it myself last week...
...like Miranda warnings. An 1873 Supreme Court decision held that bounty hunters may pursue a defendant "into another State; may arrest him on the Sabbath; and, if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose." Says Arizona lawyer Gary Klahr: "In Phoenix, it's harder now to repossess a car--you're supposed to alert the police first--than it is to repossess a human being...
...Brennan Jr. as one of the greatest Justices of all time is to put things too abstractly. Before Brennan, the Bill of Rights protected people mostly from the Federal Government but scarcely from states and cities. Government couldn't seize a mansion without a hearing, but it could repossess a car or kick someone off welfare without explaining why. Desegregation was required in principle but not in practice. Sex discrimination was legal. Officials could punish their critics. Religious practices could be penalized...
...look of knowing suspicion crossed the face in front of me. "You're tryin' to repossess his car," the face's owner drawled. It was clearly about time to give up the search...