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Americans will promptly notice a British accent in Mortimer's writing. Novelist Felix Morsom inhabits a world of prawns and wireless sets and lorries painted carmine, where children do their prep every night for school and where adults have sexual connection. The distinction between a barrister and a solicitor and other niceties of the English legal system, which play a rather prominent role in the latter part of the book, can also be confusing to the uninitiated on the other side of The Pond, but no cultural barriers can mitigate the horror of the nightmarish side of London suddenly exposed...
Fried served as Solicitor General under President Reagan, and several students said they miss his expertise...
...speak from vast experience from being solicitor general, knowing a lot of the justices on the Supreme Court and being a justice himself on the Massachusetts Supreme Court," said Evan S. Reynolds, a second-year law student. "He gets right to the point about doctrine...
...strike specific items from Congressional bills the measure places too much power in the Executive Branch. Lawyer Alan Morrison told justices Tuesday that a line-item veto would allow the President to distort Congress's intentions simply by picking and choosing what he liked in a spending bill. Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger countered by arguing that Congress also has the power to prevent the President from using the line-item veto on specific proposals, through a simple majority vote. The Justices agreed to hear the case on a special fast-track basis, but some of them expressed skepticism that...
...solicitor told me that they obtained the information from a credit bureau," he said...