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From our point of view, Intelligent Design is not a legal strategy, it's a scientific theory. It's a robust theory and we're getting more and more interest in it all the time.

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

If a judge has strong political views, it is perfectly appropriate to inquire whether those views would affect their legal reasoning and cause them not to be objective and fair.

If being intelligent, brilliant, a superb lawyer, the greatest legal mind of your generation and well qualified is not enough, what is?

I favor initiating some action, but I await final conclusions from our legal services," ()

I don't want moral ambiguity. This is legal ambiguity. This is a nasty world. These guys are trying to do the best they can.

I don't understand when there's excess capacity at mainland detention centers, why there's a need to take these asylum seekers as far away as possible from the best legal teams.

I don't think it's so much a legal issue as a practical issue. In practicality, I don't think it would work.

I don't think it's a question of how big or small it is. It is an issue that we have to contend with because of the action that was filed and we're responding through the legal process.

From the standpoint of Ben, obviously Ben did what he did ... but we believe there were errors in both the evidence and the legal instructions to the jury, ... We respect the jury's findings, but feel the decision was flawed.

For us it's a fairness issue, it's a justice issue, and it's a legal issue.

For us it brings us closer to observing our options... from a legal standpoint, from a financial standpoint and from a development standpoint.

For the record, it is certainly the case that there needs to be prize consideration for gambling, ... Clearly, if it is legal in the state and there is no prize offered, I can't see why anyone would consider it gambling. We are not attempting to make illegal by this legislation fantasy sports that would be legal in states. I'm pleased that the previous opposition has been removed.

Given the recent developments in Martha Stewart's legal situation, we are moving ahead with a substantial amount of the uncertainty behind us, ... We continue to manage the company for the long term.

Gnutella was once seen as dead so may be off the radar ... It's proof that legal pressure from industry groups results in the mass migration of file sharers to an alternative network, whether old or new. This cat and mouse game will continue.

Global warming is real, it's happening now and President Bush has the legal authority to regulate the pollution that's causing it. He just doesn't want to. The Supreme Court must overturn the lower courts judicial activism and give this case a proper hearing.

If what is described is true, it's outrageous. It raises various legal and constitutional questions. There needs to be an investigation to find out who's behind this and those people need to be held accountable.

If transformed into the law of the land, Judge Roberts' legal views could produce a government with less power to protect ordinary people and give ordinary people less power to protect themselves from abuse by government and other powerful interests.

If the two licenses have differing terms, there may be a conflict between the two when you try to move back and forth. If we start fracturing off more and more with different licenses, it becomes more of a legal landmine for everyone.

If the turnover of judges continues legal experts will begin to question the stability of the court.

If that happens, the TNI will take the necessary legal measures against them,

If the DOJ were to appeal, this would have dragged the case on even longer regardless of what the companies wanted to do. We're not in legal limbo anymore. The dominos are falling.

If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects to the global economy as well as our individual liberties will be severe.

If it requires us to take legal action, we will fight this.

He was very clear when he decided there were three basic areas where felt there needed to be some change, ... First in the area of legal immigrants, second in the area of food stamps and third to give the governors some more flexibility.

He was totally incredible, ... This is the guy who was in charge of the corporation. ... I'm afraid he may have put himself in some legal jeopardy as a result.

He has a clear and consistent stand that reproductive rights must be maintained through legal protections and legislative advocacy. We know where he stands.

He had to jump through some legal hoops to issue this opinion. It leads us to believe it was more about political ideology than legal standing.

He had sought the advice of their legal counsel who advised there was no conflict of interest.

He has no legal basis for spying on Americans without court approval.

He has a way of saying things, a way of putting things, that takes complex legal concepts and puts them in common-sense terms that can gather consensus and persuade.

He has turned a small legal battle about privacy into public questioning of his entire role. He has opened up a huge can of worms.

He is a person of proven legal brilliance and judicial temperament, and he is respected by scholars on the left as well as on the right,

He is highly regarded and well respected by the legal and business communities.

He is entitled to a protection of his legal rights and a protection of his reputation.

He is accused and has pleaded guilty to acting as an agent for North Korea; he was not accused or charged with espionage. In order for us to prove a case involving espionage, there's certain legal criteria that must be met.

He doesn't have a legal obligation to check with the CIA, but he certainly has a professional obligation to check with the CIA.

He (Elian) has a father, and there is a bond between father and son that the law recognizes and tries to honor, ... We have no information that would indicate that that legal connection, that bond should not be honored.

help with the legal justification for the use of force ... despite U.S. resistance.

Today, it appears there may be as many as 100 lawyers and legal assistants working at your expense to defend the president against a mountain of charges and allegations about his personal behavior,

We feel is it is our legal and ethical obligation to close the road as soon as possible.

Whatever Robbie's intention, his legal action has created the impression he thinks it is shameful to be gay.

What do you mean by the Communist Party? As far as I know it is a legal party like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

There is a legal measure in the United States that condemns and punishes statements of this nature,

There is a high probability that some legal action will be pursued. Perhaps a temporary restraining order to stop the implementation and then broader legal action after that.

There is a great deal of interest to see how far the web will spread and to see if there is anyone ensnared in it. A lot of top names in the legal and entertainment industries have been mentioned.

There is no area of the law that doesn't get expanded and deepened once you step out of the U.S.. It's great for the legal community.

There is mounting anger in Western business circles over the lack of radical liberal reforms and the failure to establish a functioning legal system.

The purpose of the terrorist-surveillance program is to protect lives. The president's actions were legal and fully consistent with the 4th Amendment and the protection of our civil liberties under the constitution.

We took into account the spirit, the fairness, the competitiveness of the competition were certainly an issue, but we also had to fulfil our legal obligations.

We're on the record as saying ... that Mr. Clinton and his surrogates have already engaged in perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruct of justice and that evidence gives us a right to a legal presumption that Mr. Clinton's entire case is weak and unfounded. Therefore, there was error and the case should go to a jury.

What I see is a stable of salivating legal factories gearing up. Is it prudent or responsible for Congress to wait for the inevitable flood or do what it can to provide sandbags now?

What I heard, unfortunately, was more legal hair-splitting,

We've found about 200 road-rage deaths over a period of several years, compared to the 17,000 a year caused by drunk driving. Some states are considering pretty severe penalties, trying to rewrite laws so that road rage has some specific legal consequences. We're not sure that's appropriate.

We support Microsoft and expect Microsoft ultimately will prevail in these legal proceedings.

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

We support comprehensive immigration reform including a solution that provides better control over our borders and more effective tools to help companies verify the documents of the people they hire. We also support a guest worker program and a process for undocumented workers already in the U.S. to be able to earn permanent legal status.

We suggest they seek legal and financial advice first.

We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances to call upon the US authority and the present government of Iraq to review the legal status of the present court and to reallocate the present court outside Iraq, i.e. The Hague, Netherlands,

We are fully compliant with the law, and we are very strict about it. Our legal team and staff are well trained - we have never had one of our adverts stopped.

To file a suit in the court is very expensive. Poor people cannot pay. We can give them free legal aid and help the poor people,

Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.

What you really have is a rogue agency. So many people give the SEC such wide latitude, but they have exceeded (their) legal authority.

What we favor is everybody coming out of the shadows, paying a fine and becoming part of a legal guest-worker program. That would not necessarily take away their right to apply for citizenship, but what it does say is you can be part of a guest-worker program and get in line with everybody else for citizenship.

have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage.

Having him close by is a great legal benefit to him.

He's a bright guy. Known him for a long time, so I'm not surprised at all. I think it's great for former players to be as involved as they can in the PA, especially a guy with a legal background.

Her record is one of being a trailblazer for women in the legal profession and a record of being a tough and strong litigator who has represented clients before state and federal courts on a broad range of issue." ()

He said if I would form an organization to advance scientific research from a legal perspective, he would join the advisory board,

He said he wants students to know that if you do this, you're going to be charged. The police chief has just concluded that they did this. He doesn't have the legal or moral authority.

He said he had a check for $12,000 and asked that she cash it and send back $7,600 to his car hiring agency, ... He wanted her legal name and address, and a phone number and asked her to please remember that the integrity of his agency was involved.

He's got one of the best legal minds in the Senate,

His research on the use of force changed the direction of police practice and legal doctrine.

His views on a wide range of vital issues are far outside the mainstream of legal thought.

History will show that Gov. Schwarzenegger had a chance to end the last vestige of legal discrimination in our state, ... Instead of choosing the way of the future the governor has aligned himself with the enemies of equal rights for all.

He's a very smart lawyer and he's giving legalistic answers that are probably accurate. He doesn't want to lie. But he's giving answers that under some legal analysis do tip his hand, and it's very bad news for women.

He's going to face that conflict inevitably. The town is involved in ongoing litigation in which his brother had been a leading attorney. It's not about whether you're for or against Blue Back Square. It's about protecting the town's legal interest.

He's going to face hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal expenses if he gets charged and decides to defend himself. It's hard to focus on that and focus on re-election.

There is an inherent unfairness for changing the rules in the middle of the game or holding someone responsible for something that was perfectly legal at the time it was done.

There is a need for dissemination of general legal information, which is something a community law centre can assist with significantly.

There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

Under normal legal ground rules, it would probably be the case that if the court decided the case on the merits and ruled in our favor, then they would not be entitled to be in the draft.

Under current law, the legal question of whether speech is obscene is determined partly by reference to local community standards, ... EFF is concerned that these venue rules permits censorship of speech on the Internet under the standards of the least tolerant community, negating the values that the community standards doctrine was intended to protect -- diversity and localism in the marketplace of ideas.

We make sure that legal parentage gets established for the child. We do get involved with the hospitals, we talk to both parents about how to sign a voluntary acknowledgement of paternity. Or we can use other judicial or administrative remedies to make an alleged father become the legal father.

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.

We make every best effort to police the activity and try to stop it before we have to take legal action.

We made known our differences at that time, and since then, through our determined and thus far successful legal actions against the department's regressive personnel rules.

Human smuggling is an enforcement priority for ICE because it undermines the integrity of our nation's legal immigration system. Additionally, smuggled aliens are often treated as a commodity and are exploited by the criminal networks that brought them here.

He was suspended with pay, which is our legal obligation to do. As of (Thursday), Mr. McCormack has resigned from his position with the Dearborn Public Schools. That will officially take place at the Board of Education meeting on Monday.

I agree these are annoying flights. We don't have legal recourse yet.

I actually started when I was 12 years old, that's when my home state of Alabama made it legal to hunt deer one month earlier with bow and arrow and firearm, and as far as exhibition shooting what got me started was that a friend of mine had an archery shop and asked me since I used long bow, which was very unusual at the time to come down and do some exhibition,

He can take his campaign funds, which he raised more than a million bucks, and now convert that into his legal defense fund.

He can only be arrested if a legal warrant exists, and such a warrant can only be issued by a court that is requested to do so. That request is being made now by the foreign ministry, based on the note from Peru.

He knows (AB849) would immediately draw a legal challenge, ... If he thinks it belongs in the court, this option will get it there.

He'll be much more likely to use crisp, technical, very careful legal analysis,

He is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a 'do-over' since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and illegitimate. This is an abomination of justice,

has fostered a program that pursues excellence on and off the field. Actually, let me amend that: It pursues excellence on the field and pursues the best legal representation money can buy off the field.

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.