| 单词 | legal |
| 例句 | Their death-in-prison sentences were insulated from legal challenges or appeals by a maze of procedural rules, statutes of limitations, and legal barricades designed to make successful postconviction challenges almost impossible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We were relieved early and walked over to the chapel, where Martinez sat notarizing inmate legal documents for an hour. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The engine was almost silent, though we’d raced across the black freeways at more than twice the legal speed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The country’s legal system would guarantee equality before the law, and a bill of rights would be drawn up to protect civil liberties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She explains that the judge will take legal responsibility for me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The legal guidelines that might permit a clear answer to that question had not yet congealed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This idea long precedes the legal claim to authorial copyright, which did not exist in British law until 1710, and was established later elsewhere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Fred and Leon stopped by for a while, permits in hand, to discuss legal issues with Father. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Out of 125 papyri recording contemporary legal cases, fully 20 percent involve personal squabbles between individual Greeks and Egyptians. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z There might be some legal info you could use to battle Wilfrido. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Garcías were only legal residents, not citizens, but for the police to mistake Mami for a citizen was a compliment too great to spare a child discomfort. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z In addition to the legal irregularities, I was also unaware of many other troubling aspects of my care. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Everything would get back to normal, she said, once Dad’s legal problems were over and he was working again. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z They came at the same age to the same section of New York City, without legal papers or more than a few words of English. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He said, “It’s a legal word, that’s the important thing for our purposes.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Those ancestors walked into the gathering as legal property and emerged as free citizens of the United States of America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I don’t know,” Roy said, “but it’s not legal, and it’s not right.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an expensive legal battle between Halley and his stepmother over the estate. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z At one point there were as many as fourteen children in there, plus the parents, even though their legal capacity was for only seven. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z We in the Youth League had seen the failure of legal and constitutional means to strike at racial oppression; now the entire organization was set to enter a more activist stage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the paper’s in-house lawyer, it would be his job to advise the editors about the possible legal fallout from publishing classified documents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Ruth and me are free, Pastor. Miss Finch freed us in her will. Momma, too, if she had lived. It was done up legal, on paper with wax seals.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z A more democratic world—and one with the legal institutions that go hand in hand with democracy—is a more rhetorical one. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z When a conservative majority took power in Congress in 1994, legal aid to death row prisoners became a political target, and federal funding was quickly eliminated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On October 13, after two more months of legal wrangling, the Crown suddenly announced the withdrawal of the indictment altogether. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He spluttered out, “Why...I...I demand you let me go ’bout doing my legal duty! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Through her reverie of mumbo jumbo she heard the court-appointed lawyer lean over to Richie and offer two words of legal advice: “Plead guilty.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The third legal problem was that Bobby was being sued by Chester Fox because he’d interfered with the filming of the Icelandic match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On many legal documents her signature would not be considered valid unless she wrote her name followed by the words “married to Henry Blackwell.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I told Moses point-blank that his mind was stuck in the old mold of the ANC’s being a legal organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “He has no legal heirs,” the woman said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I am a minor myself— the legal drinking age is twenty-one—but none of the waiters ever asks for my I.D. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His freedom wouldn't be based on some tricky legal loophole or the exploitation of a technicality. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Treasury Department says that the very wealthiest find ways, legal and illegal, to shelter a lot of income from taxes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He knew they were more expensive, too, that people paid almost $10,000 more in legal fees for babies who were white, so he knew that these girls’ adoptive parents had some money. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Earlier decisions had chipped away at the “separate but equal” doctrine, yet Jim Crow had managed to adapt to the changing legal environment, and most Southerners had remained confident that the institution would survive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The legal game was on now, taking on its own life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Post was facing certain legal action by Nixon, and possibly fines that could cripple the company. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In 1933, Austin and a small group of supporters attempted to enroll a black student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—the first legal challenge to segregation in higher education in America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, Justice Strauss. Be creative. There’s no reason to stick to the legal ceremony. It’s not as if it’s a real wedding.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “I’m the only legal driver,” she kept pointing out, “and besides, you and Daniel never chip in for gas.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly, she prays for an amnesty for immigrants so she can become legal and bring her daughter Belky to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He initiated legal proceedings to gain custody of their children and became intent on publicly disgracing his wife by exposing her infidelity and revealing her relationship with a black man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Mom is getting married, as planned, on August eleventh. That’s the last day of her week, her legal time, with me.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In Congress, North Carolina senator Sam Ervin Jr. drafted a racist polemic, the “Southern Manifesto,” which vowed to fight to maintain Jim Crow by all legal means. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even though Bobby felt Paramount’s behavior was unethical and unfair, he took no legal action. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But the economic and social mobility that had been held hostage by that legal discrimination remained stuck. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I suggested that maybe it was time to take legal advice, to look into getting a restraining order or something. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But many legal experts I’ve talked with doubt such a case would succeed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There were two small technical legal difficulties with the truck—it had no recent license plates and it had no lights. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Raleigh had helped a few of the Zeitouns’ workers who had legal issues to straighten out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The porous legal system seemed unable to contain him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The institution of a legal, government-sanctioned racial caste system was overturned in 1994 with the first democratic elections, but its effects still haunted the country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Dealing with my mother was a legal chore, but Mary met her match in Marjorie Moss. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z You can imagine the scene: a dark-paneled room, an artfully frayed Persian carpet, row upon row of leather-bound legal volumes, oil paintings of Mr. Mudge and Mr. Rose on the wall. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As befitted the central player in the Constitutional Convention, Madison emphasized the various legal obligations imposed by the compact of 1787. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Colonel Cathcart often wondered if what they were doing with the plum tomatoes was legal, but Colonel Korn said it was, and he tried not to brood about it too often. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She was aghast that we had been in legal limbo for so long and thought that five years should have been plenty of time for my mother to get her act together. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “I already know what it says. I just needed it for legal reasons.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “You guys don’t have legal guardians right now,” David said. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Gayle may have ended legal segregation on the buses, but it did not end racial prejudice. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Blacks across the North organized to cover the cost of legal fees. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And though nonlawyers might assume that the language of contracts, such as the party of the first part, must serve some legal purpose, most of it is superfluous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z What they were doing was all legal and approved. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z He worked for the government at one point, translating legal documents. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re right,” she said finally, to Count Olaf, “this marriage, unfortunately, is completely legal. Violet said ‘I do,’ and signed her name here on this paper. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z This was an irksome but expected trade-off in the legal field, where it was not uncommon to prepare for a trial that never came to pass. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mom worked with my dad on the letters—she’s a legal secretary, and she gets straight to the point. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “So you aim to be a princess. Well, everyone has a foolish dream. Gregory, for instance, dreams of a world where soup is legal. And that rat, Gregory is sure, has some foolish dream, too. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He answered the telephone in the office on Andreason Street and took notes on a yellow legal pad. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z To drum up public support for the law, legal injunctions were bolstered by insidious propaganda—a formula that the Nazis would eventually bring to monstrous perfection. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z All of a sudden, it seemed important to her that she and Papi be legal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I often brought a book to read or a legal brief to work on. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In legal scholar Ricardo Bascuas’s words, “Operation Pipeline is exactly what the Framers meant to prohibit: a federally-run general search program that targets people without cause for suspicion, particularly those who belong to disfavored groups.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They suggested she was making things up to help the government’s legal team. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z No. "My name is Bryan Stevenson. I'm a legal intern with the Southern Prisoners Defense Committee, and I've been instructed to inform you that you will not be executed soon." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I’m saying, incidentally, that it was wrong, not just illegal, because it isn’t a question of whether it was legal or illegal, that isn’t enough. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He yelled, “Who has the nerve to interfere with me doing my legal duty?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Nixon sat alone on a couch, sipping coffee, taking notes on a yellow legal pad on his lap. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I could tell he was annoyed by my lecturing and legal arguments, and I was pretty sure he thought I was being pushy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z If it had been legal, I think he would have called in firing squads. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She looked at me coolly and waved me away after reminding me that she was, in fact, an experienced legal secretary. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Today, dozens of legal organizations hand out awards in the fictional lawyer's name to celebrate the model of advocacy described in Lee's novel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On the plane ride home that day, I made a small list on a yellow legal pad, issues and questions that we all grapple with, from happiness to aging to having children to death. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was subsequently named an amicus curiae in Fischer’s case and sat in on and participated in all of the legal proceedings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t make the laws, sir. Your outrage notwithstanding, you still need to prove the parents are deceased. The boy has to be declared a legal orphan.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Now it is a legal marriage. I have never seen a case where there is so much passion and devotion.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Zita remained in Los Angeles for six weeks and stayed at the home of Robert Ellsworth, an attorney who helped Bobby with various legal matters. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My first letter, Dear Mrs. O’Brien, Inasmuch as you have not seen fit to pay me what you owe me I may be forced to resort to legal action. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They were convinced that since they had come to power through legal means, no one could take it away from them, at least not until the next Presidential election. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Fugitive Slave Law was a legal fact as well. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z So, sometimes, even if the legal beautician is not as adept as Violet, a regular customer will sneak to a shop just for the pleasure of a comfy shampoo. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw Delacruz that afternoon checking a dictionary, making sure to spell correctly all the words in a legal appeal to get his sentence reduced. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The CBS legal department wanted twenty-eight changes to Koch’s revised script. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The legal rule is in place so the police and government can't abuse their power and lock someone up for no reason. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It’s not legal anymore, but I still have to take a bus to get to school because Mama didn’t want me going to the school right around the corner from where we live. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I understood that she had the legal right to sell it; what I didn’t understand was— “Why?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Americans were then a novelty in South Africa, and I was curious to meet a representative of so august a legal organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It probably wasn’t even legal in the first place, so it only counts as a halfsie,” she told me once. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Because regulation of a legal market is bound to fail when a healthy black market exists for the same product. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Even at that young age, I knew I couldn’t trust the legal system to bring about justice. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Right after high school, she left Pike County, making her way through college and law school, spending time in France, Scotland, and Ireland, and beginning a high-powered legal career. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They may also be held in detention for a minor offense, without bail, for months or more during investigation and legal proceedings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As a former lawyer, he had made a smart legal deal when taking the job with The Mercury Theatre on the Air in 1938. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “But this is not, I suppose, a matter for the police. A civil, not a legal, matter,” she clarifies. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But in Norway and Sweden, we were greeted with open arms, and given assistance and scholarships and money for legal defense and humanitarian aid for political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She writes something down on her legal pad. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z After forty years of persecution and banishment, the ANC was now a legal organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two days ago, your parents managed to tie up the money with legal proceedings, ultimately ending any hopes you had of spending the final sum. Then Leonard called me this morning.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Convicts had no meaningful legal rights at this time and no effective redress. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I put the legal pad on the step beside me and slipped my mom’s research proposal out of the backpack. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “I didn’t think that was legal in England.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z We defined the issues in terms of developing legal doctrine and establishing legal precedent; our clients became important, but secondary, players in a formal arena that required lawyers to translate lay claims into technical speech. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The abuse of alcohol, mostly by men, was wreaking havoc, particularly on families and on women who, at a time when they had few legal rights, were totally dependent on their husbands for support. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “She can make us legal in one month.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It felt oddly dispossessing, being handed this first legal proof of my personhood: until that moment, it had never occurred to me that proof was required. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I have a legal paper in the shoebox under my bed that says I arrived here on August 23, 1923, on a steamer called the Austergeist. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no idea how far Miles’s definition of legal stretched, but maybe this was his form of a peace offering. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It was substantially reinforced when the religion became legal and was openly practised following the Edict of Milan in ad 313. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The term "anchor baby" refers to a child born to a noncitizen mother in a country that has birthright citizenship, especially when providing an advantage to family members seeking to secure citizenship or legal residency. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z When I went to Robben Island, all my children were in this legal limbo of age restrictions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the marriage had been contracted according to Osage custom, there was no need for a legal divorce, and they simply went their own ways. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This petition asks the Obama administration to legally recognize genders outside of the male-female binary, and provide an option for these genders on all legal documents and records. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z These legal rules ensure that the undercaste is overwhelmingly black and brown. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When she was still a teenager serving her sentence at the Tutwiler Prison for Women, she started writing to me to ask about various legal decisions she'd read about in the newspaper. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All it took was a legal petition, the article had said. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "Takurdada tried, though. He must have sent fifty letters full of legal threats from Calcutta." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But judging by the political rhetoric and the legal rules employed in the War on Drugs, this result is no freak accident. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In short, the chapter explains how the legal rules that structure the system guarantee discriminatory results. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From a legal perspective, his primary stance, he wondered, What was the law here? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The legal question was whether condemned prisoners could file civil rights actions to challenge arguably unconstitutional methods of execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Within a few years after the drug war was declared, however, many legal scholars noted a sharp turn in the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “None with whom the Picketts have a good relationship. Davis has been declared an emancipated minor by the state and is his brother’s legal guardian.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Penn had swapped out three of its eight Poughkeepsie oarsmen, replacing them with recent graduates not eligible to race in the intercollegiate regatta but perfectly legal in Olympic trials. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If you need legal or medical help, do you worry that your race might work against you? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As part of their unconventional wedding ceremony, Blackwell renounced his legal privileges as husband, and Stone announced that she would keep her own name. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z We don’t have the money for legal proceedings to evict them. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At work, for example, when he would staple “FYI—For Your Information” notes to legal briefs and corporate returns that I had to review, he signed them at the bottom: “FYI—Forever You & I.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He scribbled a note into his legal pad. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The success of the brilliant legal crusade that led to Brown v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The vicious and easily identifiable demons that had haunted black Americans for three centuries were shape-shifting as segregation began to yield under pressure from social and legal forces. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But I hated the practice of apartheid—the legal separation of blacks and whites. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I can tell by the looks of it that it’s legal. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “That means you have no legal basis to have your grandchildren.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Worried by the plans to use his company’s equipment in the execution of Kemmler, Westinghouse apparently underwrote an expensive legal appeal of Kemmler’s conviction, which went all the way to the U.S. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-three years earlier, King Louis XIV had issued a set of rules that defined slavery as legal in the French sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z After spending the first year and a half of my legal career sleeping on Steve Bright's living room couch in Atlanta, it was time to find an apartment of my own. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On Sundays, when the square was much quieter, the constable read the village news on the steps of the town hall, followed by the clerk, who read the legal news from the notary’s office. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z You must sentence him simply as an American, equal in the eyes of our legal system to every other American. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z At the time, extrajudicial lynchings, particularly of blacks in the South, were one of the most egregious failures of the American legal system. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I checked to make sure it was legal to pick fruit from someone else’s tree that is hanging over your yard. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Owing to legal constraints and the need for an official-sounding name, he called it the Institute for Union with Nothingness, or the I.U.N. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Finding exactly what I want at the legal department is ridiculously easy. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack, meanwhile, came home from Bali looking tanned and carrying a satchel stuffed with legal pads, having converted his isolation into a literary victory. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Hale was aided by his own array of lawyers—some of the “ablest legal talent of Oklahoma,” as one newspaper put it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “There are severe legal ramifications if you don’t get your foot out of my door.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A statement in a legal document will be interpreted adversarially, without the presumption of cooperation that governs an ordinary conversation, so every exception must be spelled out. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If all goes well, then you finally become a legal resident of the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They continued to maintain that Bobby would be deported back to the United States once the legal proceedings were concluded. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Under the new law, drug busts motivated by the desire to seize cash, cars, homes, and other property are still perfectly legal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While Farid was questioning Helen and the subsequent witnesses, Duma and I sat on either side of him, supplying him with questions, helping him to deal with legal issues as they arose. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Rarely are they told that it is still legal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Jackson runs the roadways between Miss Preston’s and the city, and there ain’t much in Baltimore County that goes on without Red Jack being involved, legal or otherwise. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Seeing how she was obviously as unfamiliar with the concept of minimum wage as she was with that of the legal drinking age, I decided to forgo the college fund in favor of more booze. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z There was a visitation log that the prison used for family visits, but it was not used for legal visits. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Banned by convention, if not in fact. The only thing that would be more profitable is shipping half-men, but that of course is legal. And this isn’t at all. Is it, Lucky Girl?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “It’s your legal right. His cattle ruined your crop. He owes you the money for it.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t see how that could be legal, but I thought it was pretty cool. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z So crowded is our stock of figurative language that every profession—legal, corporate, fashion, artistic, literary, and so on—seems to have a collection all its own. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z During Jim Crow, it was legal to deny housing on the basis of race, through restrictive covenants and other exclusionary practices. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “So if I didn’t eat, my food would go to someone who was legal,” Luke said. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Women could not enter into contracts or sign legal documents. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But as a matter of legal reality, so various editors have told me over the years, my forensic memoir could never be published while my fellow criminals were alive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The evidence for it lies tucked away in her files, on a yellow scrap from a legal pad. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Only after five years of litigation and tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees was he able to secure return of his jet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It turned out that he had a girlfriend on the side, and that’s when she filed for a legal separation. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z She winks and hands me a folded piece of paper that looks like it was torn from the edge of a legal pad. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The company is fined for each metric ton of pollutants over the legal limit. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Is it even legal not to have windows in a bedroom? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She had nothing further to offer—an indication of a standoff moving to a new phase, into a more formal legal arena, with the sides entrenching. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She wanted to be fair, though she didn’t seem to care about being legal, since she was giving two unlicensed kids keys to a car they couldn’t drive. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Gold had the legal right to refuse, but decided there was no point. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There were lots of people who came up to me who needed legal help for all sorts of things. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Plan to meet to begin a step-by-step investigation, a community support program, and bring in the legal team, and see what the next steps are.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Mom kept all her notes from every bank teller and embassy representative and African expert she talked to on a yellow legal pad. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z His word was law, and if you needed a little legal education, then those brass knuckles were just the right teaching tool. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z What was the point of a legal system if it didn’t work a lot of the time? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z A little legal advice from my cousin: as a young person without immigration status, you must avoid a criminal record at all costs. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Dane may have the paper kind of legal, but he has none of the kind that’s planted inside.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Unless he was present at the execution, it would not be a legal one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In court, the suffragists argued that they had refused to stop picketing because their action was legal under the Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z On May 23, he spoke to T-Mobile and was told he needed to fax the subpoena to a legal compliance agent in T-Mobile’s Law Enforcement Relations Group. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Mr. Taylor wound up calling my friend SJ's mom, Mrs. Friedman—an attorney—and she had to come bark a bunch of legal hoo-ha in the cops' faces before they'd undo the cuffs. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The conference underlined one of the most important and demanding tasks before the ANC: to transform an illegal underground liberation movement to a legal mass political party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was asked the name of my counsel, I announced that I would represent myself, with Joe Slovo as legal adviser. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the suit was eventually resolved, the legal wrangling had been nasty, and had deprived her of a paycheck for the better part of a year. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Sanford, the Supreme Court immunized the institution of slavery from legal challenge on the grounds that African Americans were not citizens, and in Plessy v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His new priority, now that Tom White had established Partners in Health as a legal fund-raising entity, was to find money for expanding his clinic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I envied those minority students who graduated to work among lower-class Hispanics at barrio chnics or legal aid centers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of lengthy sentences into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I need to speak with the principal. I’m returning a call of his to one of your students regarding a health and legal matter. I’m the mother.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Supreme Court ruled in In re Gault that children under the age of eighteen have the right to legal assistance with any criminal charges filed against them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Walter and I traveled to legal conferences and spoke about his experience and about the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z So the next day, Singleton met with Baird, who suggested the investigator call AT&T’s legal department. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He ruled that the demonstrators had a legal and constitutional right to carry out that march, and that state and local officials were forbidden to interfere. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z One observer noted that “the veteran of legal battles does not go in for fireworks or courtroom histrionics but he makes his points all the stronger for his quiet reserve.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One of the most surprising and perhaps dismaying revelations was that Chicago’s chief of police, in his prior legal career, had represented Holmes in a dozen routine commercial lawsuits. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was now plain that we would not attempt to use legal niceties to avoid accepting responsibility for actions we had taken with pride and premeditation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These categories imply that we find Everest to be covered in snow; we make today Thursday; and the bank decrees that this is legal tender. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Inside, Mr. Justice Wargrave said with due legal caution: "Beautiful weather we are having." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “Of course that is now my legal title, but for personal reasons I prefer to be addressed in the usual way.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z This was a dangerous strategy, for we could easily win this legal battle but lose the war. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt more determined to recruit staff and obtain resources to meet the growing challenges of providing legal assistance to condemned people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The clerk said, “That’s not a legal description. It’s barely even a proper address.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Breaking and entering with the intent to commit theft. What do you call that, Tag? In legal terms?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We began our courtship in 1961 but were together six years before we tied the knot because it wasn’t legal for whites and blacks to marry until sixty-seven. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z This is a route you take to become a legal resident of the United States when you’re escaping persecution in your home country, and when returning to said country could put your life at risk. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Well, you need advice on a legal matter. You don’t need a lawyer. Just ask your Assemblyman.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks over one of the forms I filled out earlier for the paralegal and gets a yellow legal pad out of his desk drawer. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Private wills are not legal: a man dying leaves his fortune to the state. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The decision made, the men contacted H. G. Wells’s legal representative in New York and bought the rights to adapt the novel into a radio play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z These exchanges are important because they frame a debate that was never so succinctly argued in the courtroom, given the long and drawn-out legal process. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They did so, legal analysts said, because they had foolishly signed contracts in which they agreed to be bound by North Korean law. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I told her I was proud of her, but I could not stay and talk as I had quite a lot of legal work to do. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been chosen as an editor on the Harvard Law Review, a monthly student-run journal that was considered one of the top legal publications in the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I talked to my dad and he said they can build whatever they want on that land, long as they’ve got the legal papers. There’s nothing we can do.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As we shall see, the legal rules governing prosecutions, like those that govern sentencing decisions, maximize rather than minimize racial bias in the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Since Claudette was still a legal minor, one of her parents would have to file the lawsuit on her behalf. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z My father kind of chuckled and said, “It depends on whether it was legal or not, I guess.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z However, as legal scholar David Cole has observed, “in practice, the drug-courier profile is a scattershot hodgepodge of traits and characteristics so expansive that it potentially justifies stopping anybody and everybody.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was an added layer of complexity when it was a legal case. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Bible say what so e’er the Lord hath brought together, let no man put asunder— Matthew Twenty-one: Two. We was bony fide and legal wed, suh,” she pleaded. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Attorney Fitzgerald shakes his head and jots something down on his legal pad. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z When he broached the topic, he found that legal and political leaders were largely sympathetic to his ideas. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “The presumption of innocence is now a legal myth,” he declared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I jotted down as much data as possible during the news coverage and then called the legal firm handling my godfather’s estate auction in Tennessee. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “As I was saying, since the orphan children are not legal. Zola steps forward. “ The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z My mother, concerned about the effects on her children of a drawn-out legal affair, opted to settle out of court, despite believing she had a larger wrongful death case. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z As legal scholar David Cole has observed, “The Court has imposed nearly insurmountable barriers to persons challenging race discrimination at all stages of the criminal justice system.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I’m here for a legal visit,” I replied. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But within barely a decade, the Klan had been extinguished, largely by legal and military interventions out of Washington, D.C. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Between my underground political work and legal cases, I had not been able to see him for some time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “She can get married if she has the permission of her legal guardian, acting in loco parentis,” Klaus said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “They would have to drive a stake through her heart to make it legal,” Lloyd said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The man tapped his pen against the legal pad, waiting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She spent a couple of hours on the phone this morning, holding a yellow legal pad in her lap. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My staff and I discussed how we might use the constitutional reasoning that banned the execution of children as a legal basis for challenging juvenile life-without-parole sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Though Daniel Ellsberg did not know what was happening in New York, he suspected he may soon need legal representation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She spent two hours with the legal officer from the air station straightening her affairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Investors who wanted to devour unwilling targets needed help with their legal strategy, and shareholders needed formal representation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I'd filed a lengthy brief that documented the insufficiency of the evidence and raised every legal deficiency in the trial that I could identify. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Just because something was legal didn’t automatically make it right. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We have got to use our legal system to protect our God-given freedoms. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Judges with the caring look that meant nothing as lawyers said legal phrases that meant nothing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “Finch, I hope you know I’m your friend, and that means I want to help you. But this is also a legal matter, and I have an obligation.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It isn’t known how much Fischer paid for his legal defense, but it probably wasn’t all that much since Suzuki was receiving pro bono advice and assistance from those who felt Bobby was being persecuted. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Every time I asked her the simplest of tax questions, for example, she could turn the conversation around and make it seem as if I were too cheap to pay for her legal advice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Wednesday chuckled, and began to pore over his maps, unfolding and refolding them, making occasional notes on a yellow legal pad with a large silver ballpoint pen. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z No one knew precisely, but Becchina gave the Getty’s legal department a sheaf of documents relating to its more recent history. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Bobby insisted that his passport was perfectly legal and had two and a half years to go before it expired. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "Suppose this Falconer sells the play to a printer, who publishes it and has it registered. Then the Chamberlain's Men lose all legal right to perform it ourselves." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “We both know him. I worked with him on a legal case and came to admire him. He’ll see to it that Frightful is given good care.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the hall from his office is a law firm, affiliated with Kavesh and Gau, that handles wills and living trusts and all other legal matters related to financial planning. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good heavens!” cried Elizabeth; “but how could that be? How could his will be disregarded? Why did you not seek legal redress?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z I scooped up the proposal and the legal pad, but when I went to stuff them into the backpack, there was a noise like two metal things colliding. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “In a post-9/11 world, we couldn’t get a single legal authority to agree with us on this point about ‘safety.’ Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Oliver introduced me to them and explained that they were visiting him on a legal matter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like it or not, Alex, the Royal and General is now your legal guardian.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z As the testimony continued, much of it tedious legal maneuvering, we began to occupy ourselves with other matters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I explained that this was according to regulations because this was considered a family visit not a legal one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Banning was a legal order by the government, and generally entailed forced resignation from in-dicated organizations, and restriction from attending gatherings of any kind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the case of Peugeot SA the crucial story was the French legal code, as written by the French parliament. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At other times, Daniel Ellsberg hunched over a legal pad, making notes for his lawyers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I grabbed a yellow legal pad where Fred had recorded pages of notes on great white shark behavior, reproduction, and something called osmoregulation. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z What Priddy needed was a blanket legal order that would authorize him to sterilize a woman on explicitly eugenic grounds; one such test case would set the standard for a thousand. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I knew that I had been adopted, although there had never been official proceedings to make the adoption legal. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Telegram to the Federal Radio Commission from the legal department of Newark, New Jersey, protesting the War of the Worlds broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “I have a paper here, all signed and legal, to prove it. I’m going to sell the water, you see.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you cannot interrupt these proceedings any longer! If you persist in this attitude, you’ll be removed from this room! I have the legal right to determine what evidence is necessary. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z To Minnie the little ceremony appeared to be legal and in its quiet way very romantic, but in fact no record of their union was entered into the marriage registry of Cook County, Illinois. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He wound up calling Cingular’s legal department, who told him such requests could take ten to fifteen days, an amount of time that had already elapsed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He opened his binder; it contained multiple documents and a legal pad. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The next step, they agreed, was to consult with Attorney General John Mitchell about possible legal action. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There wasn't time to write back and forth for legal sponsorship from Ruth. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The legal rules adopted by the Supreme Court guarantee that those who find themselves locked up and permanently locked out due to the drug war are overwhelmingly black and brown. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The following sports anomaly has legal implications as well. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were legal challenges to integration in the courts. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Actually, I’m not sure it’s legal to be looked at like this. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It was written on yellow legal pad paper. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It is not legal to hunt chimpanzees; they are endangered. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a legal mess that could only be settled in the Supreme Court. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As Adam Freedman points out in his book on legalese, “What distinguishes legal boilerplate is its combination of archaic terminology and frenzied verbosity, as though it were written by a medieval scribe on crack.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Dad had specifically told me not to ever tell anyone at the school about the mean stuff I did to Auggie—for legal reasons. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z They were not going to observe what they considered the legal niceties that protected terrorists or permitted convicted prisoners certain rights in jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She started organizing information into carefully labeled folders: one about cells, another about cancer, another full of definitions of legal terms like statute of limitations and patient confidentiality. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She flipped through her yellow legal pad and continued. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “It’s not legal to say it. It’s against the law.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad were sitting on stools at the breakfast nook, looking at a yellow legal pad, when I walked in. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “And they’re legal,” she reported to my mom over coffee one afternoon. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The job of our legal committee was to advise our comrades on how to conduct themselves in the island’s administrative court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Among their legal arguments, the lawyers said that depriving the Carter Cowboys from competing in the playoffs would cause irreparable harm. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even before they hung up, he had turned his truck around and was barreling to the client’s house as fast as was legal. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He would marry Cleopatra, even though marriage between a Roman and a foreigner was not legal. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z In the wedding registry of Alton, New Hampshire, they remained married, their contract a legal if desiccated thing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Courters bustled about with legal preparations and plans for three adoption parties. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It turned out that my mother had once spent about a year working for him as a secretary, taking dictation and maintaining the legal department’s files. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In fact, twenty years after the civil rights revolution, the jury remained an institution largely unchanged by the legal requirements of racial integration and diversity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z After legal fees and taxes, Stanley and Zero each received less than a million dollars. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Furthermore, they wanted the Army to agree to take legal responsibility for the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But I have no “legal right to choose.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “She is if her legal guardian agrees,” Count Olaf said, “and in addition to being her husband, I am her legal guardian.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “Let’s get these things on the table and come up with legal guidelines we can all live with,” he says. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In Skadden, the legal historian Lincoln Caplan describes that early world of takeovers: The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He said he put it in his father’s name because the older man had become a legal resident after the 1986 amnesty. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Of course, such material has great value to certain historians, such as those who reconstruct legal and social history. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The other man, who had introduced himself as Rich Fowler, the vice president and legal counsel, but who Tuttle had introduced as his assistant, had been mostly quiet, leaning against the window behind his boss. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z From coast to coast, restaurants and bars marked the end of legal drinking by giving customers free glasses of whiskey and other alcoholic beverages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Despite their having no real bodies, the American legal system treats corporations as legal persons, as if they were flesh-and-blood human beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad continued to examine the legal pad in front of him. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And like Nazario’s and Bodega’s ways, they held no guarantees of success just because they were legal. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z My father then signed a document making Dr. Fiona my legal guardian for the trip to the UK. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Few legal rules meaningfully constrain the police in the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One might imagine that the legal rules described thus far would provide more than enough latitude for the police to engage in an all-out, no-holds-barred war on drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hamilton requested a brief delay so that he could complete some pending legal business and put his personal affairs in order. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Instead of continuing the argument about how they would cop, they began to fantasize about what the gold could buy when it became legal tender. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Jesse, they use computers to distribute a growing variety of information on subjects and in places to which access has long been tightly controlled: legal and medical data, academic libraries, stock trading, films. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Andrews case became the basis for a legal and medical crusade. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I have friends inside the INS who can help your son become legal. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Hotels and restaurants became mobbed with patrons enjoying the first legal drink they had had in what seemed ages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z At one time he had and used as legal tender at least forty-five tops of various sizes and colors, from the thick clumsy baby tops to the lean and dangerous splitters with their needle points. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It shows that the most obscene figures are not the ignorant ranting racists, but the legal minds who front for them, who “invent” for them the legislative proposals and the propaganda bulletins. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, it’s perfectly legal to shoot someone for breaking and entering.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At the Academy, we’d found out that this phrase was basically a legal requirement that you shouted out to indemnify yourself when you were, for whatever reason, applying a bit of extra force. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Emerson Lapp rolled his eyes to the ceiling and banged his pencil down against the legal pad. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack was writing what would become The Audacity of Hope—thinking through his beliefs and his vision for the country, threshing them into words on his legal pads late at night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Chapter 2 described the first step in some detail, including the legal rules that grant police the discretion and authority to stop, interrogate, and search anyone, anywhere, provided they get “consent” from the targeted individual. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I am anxious, of course, about finding a legal guardian. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Then she became executive director of the Chicago Council of Lawyers, a progressive legal group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of a lengthy sentence into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Early that evening, Nixon, Kissinger, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman sat in armchairs in the Oval Office, yellow legal pads on their knees. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A kid from Louie’s neighborhood was deemed feebleminded, institutionalized, and barely saved from sterilization through a frantic legal effort by his parents, funded by their Torrance neighbors. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Disabled and without adequate legal assistance, Ms. Banks was coerced into pleading guilty to killing a child who had never existed along with her sister, Ms. Tucker. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A legal scholar who explains why Jack Franklin hasn't been arrested and why he might not ever be. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Prendergast lectured Cooling on the fact that Jesus was the ultimate legal authority, then gave him the good news. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some historians and legal scholars refer to the United States as “a nation of laws.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Some aspects of Islamic law are observed in Iran's legal system, but today the country mostly operates under civil law, ratified by the parliament. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Kathy told him it was in St. Gabriel, and that because the legal system was in limbo, it would be some time before they could even hope to get Abdulrahman out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Once blackness and crime, especially drug crime, became conflated in the public consciousness, the “criminalblackman,” as termed by legal scholar Kathryn Russell, would inevitably become the primary target of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Unless she proved to be someone who had changed her name because of marriage or some other legal procedure, she would be new to Epiphany Middle School. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, no, sir. I think you might be confused. I’m an attorney. Lawyers don’t have to get strip-searched to come in for legal visits.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There was nothing dingy, at any rate, about a legal murder in the Age of Darkness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There are those who believed we should always reject bail, as it could be interpreted that we were fainthearted rebels who accepted the racist strictures of the legal system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was then one of a handful of African lawyers in all of South Africa and was the legal partner of the venerable Dr. Pixley ka Seme, one of the founders of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As legal scholar John A. Powell once commented, only half in jest, “It’s actually better to be exploited than marginalized, in some respects, because if you’re exploited presumably you’re still needed.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Perfectly legal and more common than you would think,” she said. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “If you’ve been served with a legal subpoena and you don’t show up, the judge can have you arrested.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She wasn’t legal to work in the US. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Because a witness making a statement from the dock does not submit to cross-examination or questions from the bench, the state-ment does not have the same legal weight as ordinary testimony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was interested in the legal precedent for giving consent on behalf of one’s descendants,” Caleb says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Sometimes in jails like this, the guards resist uncuffing clients, arguing that it's not safe or permitted to take the handcuffs off a suspect during a legal visit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She found temp work at legal agencies, keeping alive that distant dream of going to law school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But though Gregg’s testimony offered the clearest indication yet that Hale had ordered the murders, it was of limited legal value. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He never understood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Mom assured me it was all perfectly legal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Obviously there were legal questions here Lawyers were going to have to be consulted. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It contains a county map of Texas with complex voter demographic breakdowns, matched up with the populations of children of undocumented immigrants, unregistered voters who are legal residents, voting patterns over the last twenty years. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z No one accompanies him on this legal rite of passage, and when he steps out of the room no one is waiting to commemorate the moment with flowers and Polaroid snap-shots and balloons. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z These new legal rules have ensured that anyone, virtually anywhere, for any reason, can become a target of drug-law enforcement activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The affluent white liberals who were pressing the legal claims of blacks and other minorities “were often sheltered, in their private lives, and largely immune to the costs of implementing minority claims.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I worked in a cramped circle of desks with two lawyers and did clerical work, answering phones and researching legal questions for staff. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The valiant efforts to abolish slavery and Jim Crow and to achieve greater racial equality have brought about significant changes in the legal framework of American society—new “rules of the game,” so to speak. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were doctors, then, in the time before, when such things were legal. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z What we did was get around the law by charging the legal two shillings for the nails, or whatever it was, and then charge a shilling more for the bag we sold them in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Not until September, 1960, did the NAACP, with its tenacious legal work, force Central High to open to integration once more—but only two black students were permitted entry. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you gave them up, then you are no longer Lorraine’s legal father,” the worker responded. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z There was some legal jargon, but I grasped this: She committed J.T. and Digger to the custody of juvenile services—to nine months in a forestry camp for juvenile offenders out in western Maryland. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z And now he had this amorphous, ominous, legal cloud. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z If you analyze the odds of being given away at birth and then losing another full set of legal guardians 147 months and 7 days later, I'm right on the edge of the graph. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z For them, white hatred and the grossly unfair nature of the legal system had become too much to take. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I did not regard the verdict as a vindication of the legal system or evidence that a black man could get a fair trial in a white man’s court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This tax, the successor to one enacted in 1969 to make sure the wealthiest Americans could not use legal loopholes to live tax-free, has never been adjusted for inflation. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Despite the legal threats, none of the lawsuits made it to court. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z While the state-run agitprop machine churned to generate passive consent for eugenic sterilizations, the Nazis ensured that the legal engines were also thrumming to extend the boundaries of racial cleansing. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "It is not only legal, Mr. McSouthers," Judge Ford replied, signing her name to the check and handing it to the doorman, "it is a shrewd way to keep everyone playing the game." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z On August 3, 1959, two years and eight months after our arrests, and after a full year of legal maneuvering, the actual trial commenced at the Old Synagogue in Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not knowing that his arrest was imminent, and believing that his passport was legal, on July 13, 2004, he went to Narita Airport in Tokyo to board a plane bound for Manila. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Realizing that I barely had enough money to pay for school supplies, let alone legal expenses, John suggested soliciting a big law firm because sometimes they do work pro bono. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "You're doing all right, tell 'em to keep out of this. This is legal and I'll shoot if I have to . . ." "But what about the prayer?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it’s legal to get the pipes, isn’t it legal to get the rails?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z By the time E. D. Nixon and other black leaders heard about Mary Louise Smith, her fine had already been paid and it was too late to mount a legal challenge. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z But a few hours later, after talking to T-Mobile’s legal department, he came to understand how he could make such a mistake. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She wanted to go to jail so that her attorney could use legal tactics to force the case before the US Supreme Court. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z There was one Canadian member of my clique, who always blathered on and on about how her parents had taken the appropriate legal channels to move to the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Cole’s father had refused to pay additional legal fees, and now a public defender would be assigned. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Peugeot belongs to a particular genre of legal fictions called ‘limited liability companies’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Millions find themselves locked out of the legal economy, and no one with a record has a more difficult time getting hired than black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The miscellaneous expenses include legal fees, parties, bribes, and gang-sponsored “community events.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It’s illegal to sell human organs and tissues for transplants or medical treatments, but it’s perfectly legal to give them away while charging fees for collecting and processing them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But there was a legal limit to how much time one could be kept in solitary. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He introduced a voucher system, which at first functioned as a form of credit, but gradually became a substitute for legal tender. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z What if the legal community took a page from the classical music world? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His mother, a hippie by orientation, worked as a legal secretary; his stepfather was a physicist and engineer who designed machines that made silicon wafers, which computer microprocessors are built on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We’re supposed to have bacon, too, the thick kind that I would marry if it was legal, but there wasn’t any bacon in the box. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I hear,” the other says, “it came out of our own vaults. That it’s been here all along, but for some legal reason we weren’t allowed to show it.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Despite the USIA’s denials, it was now up to the legal system to review the investigations into the disaster. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Roy wondered if this was a kidnapping, in the legal sense of the term. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We kept talking and talking, and it was only when I heard a loud bang on the door that I realized I'd stayed way past my allotted time for the legal visit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z All that was in their hands, their heads, their legal notebooks. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After Pattie signed the bottom of the paperwork that gave her legal responsibility for Willow for the next twenty-four hours, the police cruiser charged out of the parking lot like a getaway car. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Comstock, the attorney and guardian, knew Gregg’s father well and provided legal counsel for the family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But even being a noted inventor who had been given his legal freedom by his father was no guarantee of safety to a black man in Louisiana, so he returned to France. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “We knew the Keepers were trafficking drugs, but we had no legal way to get a search warrant until Ton-Ton told us what he saw at the Keepers’ compound.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe adults thought a teenager’s testimony wouldn’t hold up in the legal system. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Just try to imagine how difficult it would have been to create states, or churches, or legal systems if we could speak only about things that really exist, such as rivers, trees and lions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the Icelandic court questioned the Japanese marriage certificate that Miyoko presented because it was only a photocopy, and she had difficulty proving that she was in fact Bobby’s legal wife. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On May 7, Singleton called AT&T’s legal department, another pester. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z While I talked, he didn’t say a thing, or ask any questions, just took notes on a yellow legal pad he had propped up on his leg. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Unlike at the Seneca Falls meeting, which focused on legal and intellectual ideas of women’s rights, the second convention emphasized practical pocketbook issues. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar, and she married him in another state where it’s legal to get married before eighth grade. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Piles of legal documents began arriving almost daily at Deborah’s door: summonses and petitions and updates and motions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But the manufacturer had the legal right to appeal and the case was accordingly reviewed by a committee. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In this hidden world, discrimination is perfectly legal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Instead of a moral crusade, the movement became an almost purely legal crusade. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Defense counsel Arthur Chaskalson rose first to deal with some of the legal questions raised by the prosecution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early nineteenth century, women had few legal rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z With contracts, as with laws: “A contract is a private and particular law, and contracts do not make the law binding, but the laws do make legal contracts so.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Why spend the rest of my life paying off my legal fees? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Undoubtedly. Now, turn to that paper, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that his legal advisers instructed him altogether to reserve his defence?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Although I had no doubts about the young man, I asked my friend and legal adviser George Bizos to be a stand-in for me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside the legal pad is a biography of the author, a thick book called Divided Soul, the pages marked by numerous scraps of torn-up paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ordinarily, the Alabama Department of Corrections couldn't just put people on death row or let them off without court orders or legal filings—and certainly no prison warden could do so on his own. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z This made Russia the first country to give women the same legal rights as men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I decided I would call the attorney general's office and see if they would concede legal error in the pending appeal, which would ensure relief at the appellate court and perhaps expedite Walter's release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Historian Allen Trelease has observed that for nineteenth-century Klansmen “the main safeguard lay not in their secrecy but in their ability to thwart legal processes if they were identified.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Pavlov said that Fischer’s “tantrums” were an insult to the World Champion, who had every legal and moral right to refuse to meet Fischer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s no excuse that what they did was legal at the time: their crimes are retroactive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Oklahoma is the only state in the Union where it is legal to own an anti-tank sniper rifle. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “So you’re going to arrest a bunch of kids for having pot? It’s legal now, you know!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Others argue that a person who’s going to put money into the American economy should be given priority for legal residency. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In Greek, it became legein, meaning to gather and to speak; “legal” and “legislator” and other such words derived. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The State will submit witnesses and evidence to establish the legal sanity of the defendant,” Buckley said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, in September and October, there were more developments on the legal and personal front that underscored the numbing effect, the purgatory. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In New York, California, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii, a woman had been able to obtain a legal abortion for at least two years before Roe v. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He had no way of knowing whether or not the house in the hills was legal, either, since Colonel Korn had made all the arrangements. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In February 1989, Eva Ansley and I opened our new nonprofit law center in Tuscaloosa, dedicated to providing free, quality legal services to condemned men and women on death row in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His eyes would follow them, with a lost longing, and he would think: You can work, you are legal, you are visible, and you don’t even know how fortunate you are. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I began to suspect that both legal and extra-constitutional protests would soon be impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But upon closer examination I realize that he’s not carrying the usual legal binder full of petitions and cease-and-desist paperwork. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Europeans viewed treaties as legal documents that focused on ending hostilities and as businesslike transactions where “the winner” got something from “the loser.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The legal term is eminent domain. endemic/epidemic/pandemic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When we marched down the streets of Birmingham in 1963 for our legal rights, we did nothing, wrong. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I set the proposal on top of the legal pad on the stairs and walked into the kitchen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z And, besides, the legal standard for getting the court to allow the subpoena wasn’t particularly high. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z On February 21a grand jury had indicted—formally accused of a crime—100 blacks for violating an obscure 1921 law banning boycotts “without just or legal cause.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Anyway, my dad said that running “those puppy- whipping lowlifes” out of the islands was worth the legal hassle. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She opens it and takes out a pen and a yellow legal pad. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One example of the way in which a well established racial order easily absorbs legal challenges is the infamous aftermath of the Brown v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You know, just to make sure it’s all legal.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early 1980s a magazine asked me to report on a long-running legal battle over Pacific Northwest salmon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The trial ended with a hung jury, so Beecher faced no legal consequences. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Anya had only ever heard of legal magic use by one group of people. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Barack activated his network of community organizers to connect us with legal aid, advocacy, and teaching opportunities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She never asked for legal assistance; she simply asked about what she'd read and expressed interest in the law and our work. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I had no idea the amount of legal fees and stress my parents endured in order for my sister and me to have government IDs. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There was one legal way, though, that someone could still obtain a headright: inheritance. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Unscrupulous accountants and lawyers tried to exploit full-blooded Osage’s ill-defined legal status. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They also verify his blood alcohol level, which is still above the legal limit two hours after the crash. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As the nation’s chief law official and legal counsel of the United States, Randolph was someone whose opinion held great weight. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “My legal name is Sherman, but I go by Gusty.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “We kept quiet about it because it’s not legal here.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A court had made it clear that Malcolm X and his family would have to vacate the Elmhurst house for its return to the adjudged legal owners, Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve had this discussion with the legal department of Harper & Row. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In 1988, we discovered an opportunity to get federal funding to create a legal center that could represent people on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We would not defend ourselves in a legal sense so much as in a moral sense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If I died, I didn’t want people remembering me for the stacks of legal briefs I’d written or the corporate trademarks I’d helped defend. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Yeah. They do all the legal stuff for the Filipino community.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Although they said they understood, they were clearly anguished about getting legal assistance while other men faced looming executions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They were born at the right time with the right parents and the right ethnicity, which allowed them to practice takeover law for twenty years before the rest of the legal world caught on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It stands to reason that an immoral and unjust legal system would breed contempt for its laws and regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked down a tunneled corridor to the legal visitation area, each step echoing ominously across the spotless tiled floor. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Now, his face flushed, stumbling over his opening sentences, he began to read from a legal pad. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It seemed inevitable that the state would attempt to put us out of business as a legal organization as soon as it could. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But as I became more familiar they became more friendly and at ease, and I joked with them that I would handle any of their legal problems. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bacon, for example, who is of course familiar with the use of the word ‘evidence’ in a legal context, never employs it when discussing natural philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A system that denies the poor the legal help they need, that makes wealth and status more important than culpability, must be changed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “We must be exceedingly careful not to overreact,” warned Charles Colson, Nixon’s top legal advisor. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z What is more, the members of the committee could be held personally responsible for all of this money because they had no legal authority to borrow or spend it. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Holmes assured her it was all perfectly legal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Law students had started arriving for short term internships, which provided us with additional legal assistance and critically needed investigative help. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z For the victims—and their advocate in Terryl—the year 2008 evolved into one of living with uncertainty, under the haze of an amorphous legal cloud, and an emotional one. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "Whatever the Führer wants is legal, no matter how inhumane. Hitler himself says so. When the Gestapo question you, you'll admit to anything just to get the pain to stop." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z She flipped to a new page on her legal pad and began scribbling half-sentences. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This is not even a legal or legislative issue alone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Justice Strauss began speaking, and Klaus saw that she was reading directly from the legal book. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z When my parents finally got official custody papers with legal instructions from a judge, I guess that sealed everything. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Some locals thought that Comstock, with his aquiline nose and tan complexion, might be part American Indian—an impression that he did little to discourage as he built up his legal practice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Since Henrietta Lacks died decades before I began writing this book, I relied on interviews, legal documents, and her medical records to re-create scenes from her life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Holmes promised also to take care of all the legal details and to record the transfer with city officials. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She went to rallies, wrote letters to him in prison, and collected money for his legal defense. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z It’s true that everywhere he stopped he’d be helping a friend through one legal squabble or another—an immigration problem, a repossessed fishing boat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The case slowly ground its way through the legal system, and everything went against us. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Nothing in the opinion or in the subsequent legal strategy made clear that segregation had afforded elites a crucial means of exercising social control over poor and working-class whites as well as blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When the Birmingham jails filled up beyond legal capacity, the school buses delivered the arrested children to the Birmingham fairgrounds—the grounds where Kiddieland was located. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z White could not anticipate the bitter, sensational legal battle that was about to ensue—one that would be debated in the U.S. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z What Nazario offered them in return was something their union didn’t cover, that if their sons and daughters needed legal help one day, he would be there. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Their commitment meant a great deal to them, but they were desperate for us to become legal residents, and if getting divorced meant alleviating our #IllegalImmigrantProblems, then so be it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z A 2011 poll of Mississippi Republicans found that 46 percent support a legal ban on interracial marriage, 40 percent oppose such a ban, and 14 percent are undecided. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We say that such Evidence-Indices is circumstantial evidence, where the legal understanding of ‘circumstantial’ essentially means ‘contextual’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Walter didn't know the legal history, but like every black man in Alabama he knew deep in his bones the perils of interracial romance. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Whatever the legal implications of Strayer’s testimony, it was scoring big points with Reggie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Grandma,” I said, “is trapping fish legal in this state?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I could now spend the day reading, writing letters, discussing issues with my comrades, or formulating legal briefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence “black is beautiful” and “gay pride”—slogans and anthems of political movements aimed at ending not only legal discrimination, but the stigma that justified it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The war went on for thirteen years, the legal struggle for ownership for another twenty-four. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lawson sits on the edge of his desk, crosses his legs, turns a few pages in a yellow legal pad covered with notes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Papa said, “This is what we call above-board legal threats against our community that if we proceed to exercise our legal civil rights, they are going to punish us.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Colonel Korn was the lawyer, and if Colonel Korn assured him that fraud, extortion, currency manipulation, embezzlement, income tax evasion and black-market speculations were legal, Colonel Cathcart was in no position to disagree with him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I maybe didn’t tell you the whole truth, okay. It’s not exactly legal for me to take this trip back to Logan. I shouldn’t be here. At all.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Our case was far more than a trial of legal issues between the Crown and a group of people charged with breaking the law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time I paid little attention to her background or legal problem, for something in me was deeply stirred by her presence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most legal transactions were based on an exchange of oaths sworn in the name of Jesus Christ. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z South African law does not guarantee a defendant the right to legal representation, and thousands upon thousands of indigent men and women went to prison every year for lack of such representation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The precedent that tipped it for me was not legal; it wasn’t a precedent of what was going on in other states. It was a scientific precedent,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Because Zeni was under twenty- one years of age, it was necessary for me to give my legal consent for her to marry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At Nixon’s order, the Justice Department went to the federal court in New York City to demand an injunction against the Times—a legal order to stop publication of the Pentagon Papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In African culture there’s legal marriage and traditional marriage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Conspicuously absent from this list was the NAACP, the country’s dominant civil rights organization since 1909, but still dedicated to the slower tactic of filing legal challenges to segregation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, as civil rights advocates converted a grassroots movement into a legal campaign, and as civil rights leaders became political insiders, many civil rights organizations became top-heavy with lawyers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The jailers clearly didn't receive a lot of out-of-town lawyers for legal visits. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I am told by Biddy, that air the writing,” said Joe, repeating the legal turn as if it did him infinite good, “‘account of him the said Matthew.’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z But the Nationalist government was making any legal expression of dissent or protest impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the opening day of the trial, they displayed their combativeness with a risky legal maneuver that a number of us had decided on in consultation with the lawyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The monthly court date was always a well-attended event, as it provided citizens with a forum to settle disputes, conduct all manner of legal transactions, and hold public auction. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A bunch of legal stuff pops up, and I’m not sure what any of it means. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Ultimately, I believe that the similarities between these systems of control overwhelm the differences and that mass incarceration, like its predecessors, has been largely immunized from legal challenge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I wheeled Joe to a cramped office for our legal visit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His amiable North Country personality cloaked a sharp legal mind and soaring political ambition. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “For want of a gentler title, the legal institution in question here is known as the Deadman’s Statute,” he explained. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And Mama Ya-Ya never went to court to be my foster mom or legal guardian. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z He told me that in Florida, creditors cannot take your home, and the Mosses had mortgaged most everything else they owned, probably to pay their bail bonds and legal fees. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Only in the second half of the twentieth century, with the dismantling of legal barriers to opportunity, did the lines begin to blur. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Because of Hale’s power, a federal prosecutor warned that it was “not only useless but positively dangerous” to try him in the state legal system. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Desperate to get their papers any way they can, many turn to shady storefront legal offices. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z One afternoon, I visited the office of a friendly, thoughtful man named Art Sussman, who was the in-house legal counsel for the University of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He’d get them jobs, legal jobs that didn’t pay a lot but got them started on their new life here in America. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But eventually her wild antics brought her at odds with the WCTU, which had been providing her with financial and legal help. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He had been preparing for a traditional legal career until he came down to work with us one summer and became fascinated by the issues that death penalty cases presented. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On July 7, five days after the shooting, Corkhill announced that he wouldn't start formal legal action until he learned whether the president lived or died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z By 1970 five states had made abortion entirely legal and broadly available: New York, California, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "And you think the records are in the legal department somewhere?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary reviewed our legal, criminal, medical, and psychological records. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I had been confined to Johannesburg for two years, chained to my legal and political work, and had neglected Mandela family affairs in the Transkei. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z General William Tecumseh Sherman, in charge of the army, called for order and trust that the legal system would deal with Guiteau. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z For the Shaws, the legal bills crept up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “We also want to explain some legal aspects to you and your mother,” Hana added. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Girls are told not to have children until they are married to a “good” black man who can help provide for a family with a legal job. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z People who were enslaved had no legal protections. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Horse ain’t legal tender. You don’t move until I get my money.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We were getting frantic calls every day from people who had no legal assistance but whose dates of execution were on the calendar and approaching fast. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The truth was, the legal system had its own unassailable logic, a logic that couldn’t be shifted. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z His public defender stood beside him, lifted a legal pad full of notes, and cleared his throat. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Some messages had to be broken on location because of legal restrictions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This dynamic, which legal scholar Reva Siegel has dubbed “preservation through transformation,” is the process through which white privilege is maintained, though the rules and rhetoric change. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From legal and political standpoints, what happened to Emmett Till was all but swept under the rug for almost fifty years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She had been his legal adviser; she would inherit his stock and serve as a director of the company until the day she, too, would be elected chairman of the board. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he thought he could control his illness and didn’t believe that he was dying until he was too ill to think about legal documents. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A too-patient voice with dividers between each word explained the legal procedures as if repeating a history lesson Carla's mother should have learned long before she had troubled the police or moved into this neighborhood. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “According to these documents, your son’s legal name is Gogol.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z All of my legal documents said that I was born on September 22, 1980, but it turns out that date is entirely false. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The Supreme Court did not reach the merits of the case, ruling instead that the plaintiffs lacked the legal right even to file the lawsuit. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I am sorry, but the orphan children, they are not legal, they must return . Zola enters from the side door, swinging her arms. She is determined about something. Paolo follows her. “ The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z With complete control of the country in his hands, Hitler began persecuting German Jews, stripping them of their legal rights, kicking them out of universities and government jobs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Or that he once found an index card in Byrd’s potting shed that said Terms of Separation, like it was some kind of legal document George or Emmett once worked on when they were lawyers. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Sure, he’d heard a bit about it here or there, but never in the legal context. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He had a legal pad on his lap, and when I finished he told me that he had prepared some questions for our visit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Her legal case had died with the appeal decision, and Claudette had lost contact with all the adult black leaders except Rosa Parks. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The bomber seemed to be attacking legal professionals connected to civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z God, why couldn’t the legal drinking age be eighteen in the US? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It has no legal status, but socially and ethically is an ancient and vigorous institution. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s to remove any legal basis on which this man Deckard could claim he hadn’t killed anyone; he only ‘retired an android.’” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthony had been accused of breaking a law that prohibited willful and knowing illegal voting; she argued that she didn’t break the law because she believed her ballot was legal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Ohmae’s company even has contracts with more than seventy thousand housewives, some of them specialists in medical or legal terminologies, to do data-entry work at home. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “Nobody obeys Stop signs anyway. They just roll on through. So now, because there isn’t one there, it’s legal. See? People will thank me.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Neither Mayor Clarkson nor the Guardians had the legal right to take control of Bush Hill. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Other states followed with even more draconian legal measures to sterilize and confine men and women judged to be genetically inferior. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Though she had reservations about the new administration, Valerie had decided to stay on at city hall, moving out of the legal department and directly into Mayor Daley’s office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Another year was required for various legal procedures. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Well, I was thinking that since it’s your eighteenth birthday, I’d really like to give you the best gift I can think of as you enter legal manhood and everything.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “Only people with legal abilities are allowed. Besides, we wouldn’t want to catch whatever it was you gave the Crystal Ball.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Corax agreed to take Tisias on as a pupil, and the deal they struck was what may have been the first no-win, no- fee agreement in legal history. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Certainly it is as legal in June as in January.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “All perfectly legal,” Manet said, still keeping his voice low. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Hoover also told Stone that per his wishes he had raised the employment qualifications for new agents, requiring them to have some legal training or knowledge of accounting. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was working two part-time jobs—one in the office of a legal nonprofit organization in Boston, and he also started assisting Vincent at Ari’s Cakes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I know they were in the alcove for hours with that yellow legal pad. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I would later be awarded the honor of looking after the legal concerns of Barney the Dinosaur. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “If you want it done right and legal, I suppose you do.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z After work, I called around and found that this practice is entirely legal: if the purse is on the boss’s property— which of course it was—the boss has the right to examine its contents. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Schoolchildren wonder out loud how discrimination could ever have been legal in this great land of ours. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And so did the French legal system back in 1896, when Armand Peugeot, who had inherited from his parents a metalworking shop that produced springs, saws and bicycles, decided to go into the automobile business. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked over to the man and said that I was the attorney for the legal visit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In 2007, we wrote to Joe and discovered that he had no legal assistance and had spent the previous eighteen years in prison with no one to help him challenge his conviction or sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was arguing that Dr. Strayer’s testimony would run afoul of a rule preventing him from suggesting a legal conclusion to the jury. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Though Mandela and Tambo had closed its doors and settled its remaining accounts, I continued to do whatever legal work I could. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had let me pursue my legal rights, even though they initially had doubts about going that route, and they always had a fresh way to solve my problems. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “It is legal in our customs. I have seen it work.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Apprehensively, she said, “There’s a fine; I’m the property, the legal property, of the association. I’m not an escaped android who fled here from Mars; I’m not in the same class as the others.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z In 458 BC, a few decades after Pythagoras’s death, the playwright Aeschylus used this odd logic to provide one of history’s most extraordinary legal defenses of matricide. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was still involved with the legal system and was always under the threat of being institutionalized again if somebody bothered to check on him. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Once arrested, defendants are generally denied meaningful legal representation and pressured to plead guilty whether they are or not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Because relatives were sometimes impossible to locate, the committee began to administer the estates of the deceased who had no legal heirs or executors available. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Then, he reminds them that they are Romans— with all the civic and legal duties implied by citizenship. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z This development enhanced their ability to wage legal battles but impeded their ability to acknowledge or respond to the emergence of a new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Subject to a separate legal system for Greeks only, the settlers were beyond the reach of native courts. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It justifies a legal, social, and economic boundary between “us” and “them.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Leave that to my father. He knows bank people who know other bank people. They’ll give him legal tender for it.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Hanako did not know if it was legal in America to even think about hating him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Also, each accused terrorist is considered an "enemy combatant" and denied some legal protection. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In fact, filing through a sibling is one of the slowest ways to become a legal resident. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z With few routes open to become legal, they remain, like Peralta, without rights, without security, and without a clear path to a better future. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z However, the executive order only bestowed temporary legal presence and work authorization. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Ferguson, the Court established the doctrine of “separate but equal”—a legal fiction that protected the Jim Crow system from judicial scrutiny for racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Father worked as a handyman or an all-around mechanic when he could, but he would cut firewood or do almost anything so long as it was legal and it paid. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Because he was still in foster care, he needed an adult to bring the legal actions on his behalf. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I enjoyed keeping my legal skills sharp, and in a few cases verdicts were overturned and sentences reduced. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For months on end, the activity in the courtroom consisted of the driest legal maneuvering imaginable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If we hadn't been able to get a rush on my sister's application, she'd probably still be waiting to become a legal immigrant. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z And, turning to me: “Now. Let us begin.” or the next several hours of that day I labored over a Greek legal dispute regarding the ownership of twenty-five oxen ravaged by the mange. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He was taken aback by my refusal but knew I was on firm legal ground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She had had no legal help; because of defects in her pleadings and the allegations she made in her complaint, we could secure only a small settlement judgment for her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Maybe, Lourdes tells herself—if she stays long enough—they will help her become legal. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z With the legal force of the Cache County Attorney’s Office, Rindlisbacher had been faxing Verizon in late January and early February. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The failure of our legal system to eradicate all of the tactics adopted during the Jim Crow era to suppress the black vote has major implications today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Olive made her will—took lots of time with it and had it checked to be sure it was legal. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Siaka Stevens returned to power in 1968, and several years later declared the country a one-party state, the APC being the sole legal party. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z One hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and smoke. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to my informal studies, my legal work continued. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Valentine said, “We have a legal right as American citizens to be here.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z T. R. Wexler had a master's degree in business administration, an advanced degree in corporate law, and had served two years as legal counsel to the Westing Paper Products Corporation. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Few legal rules meaningfully constrain the police in the drug war, and enormous financial incentives have been granted to law enforcement to engage in mass drug arrests through military-style tactics. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I glanced at Phil and Gay, who were listening to the legal gibberish. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Perhaps one of you, dear readers, with a legal turn of mind can dredge the appropriate clause from memory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The sensational legal battle that followed utterly consumed him until, several months later, all the charges were finally dropped. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the sailors’ discontent subsided, Shackleton took McNeish aside and exchanged a few quiet words with him, perhaps reminding him that execution was a legal punishment for mutiny. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Bacon had himself seen men suspected of treason racked, though torture was not normally used in English legal proceedings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "Yes, but as I no longer take a legal interest. . ." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to mount a legal attack on behalf of all black riders as a class-action suit, not just to defend protesters who got arrested and charged as criminals one by one. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z She escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826 and gained legal freedom a year later when a New York law freed slaves under age forty. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Our attorneys warned me that it would put me in a more precarious legal situation; anything I said in my statement regarding my own innocence would be discounted by the judge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He put his legal pad up on the desk, and we looked at one another. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z "I want to talk to my lawyer! This can't be legal!" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They could have bided their time until the borders eventually reopened or gone through legal channels to get us green cards before we left Iran, but that would have likely taken years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He was unaided and easily condemned by a system that was inattentive to the precise legal requirements of capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The legal sparring continued through the middle of 1959, when the court dismissed the Crown’s indictment against the remaining sixty- one accused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z According to some legal mucky-muck, both of my parents have to sign off on my staying with anyone else but one of them. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z But then he came again on the following morning with a yellow legal pad tucked beneath his arm and, a cigar between his teeth, settled down on Kabuo’s bed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They couldn’t have children, and Gil’s legal work had long included volunteer advocacy for kids in the foster care system. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Lena continued, “And Noah, that slave she brought with her, I heard tell she got legal papers all writ up for him, so when she die, he be free.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn't find volunteer counsel for his postconviction appeals, so most of his legal claims were procedurally barred because he had missed the filing deadlines. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The consumption of alcohol was legal, and no one had to worry about the religious police arresting them for throwing a coed party. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Simon Oliver, the captain of the school debate team, carefully marked the boxes on a legal pad. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Congress, which during Reconstruction had been quick to enact measures of legal, social, and economic freedom for blacks, just as quickly began to roll them back. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Just like he said, the safe was empty—except for his will and a letter and some stock certificates, land deeds, and other legal papers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It’s best, don’t you agree, to keep things legal and tidy. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Just in case there might be any doubt, some time after Tycho’s death several of his relatives signed a legal declaration that his children were legitimate and that their mother had been his wife. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She had a wide circle of friends, knew many people in the legal world, and when I went out on my own, she agreed to work for me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He read the legal details of the proposal. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She flopped down onto the couch with a thick book and a legal pad. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Here we are,” Faisal said, flipping open a yellow legal notepad. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Each clan was bound by an ironclad legal agreement stating that if one clan member won the contest, all members would share the prize. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Surely, her father would come up with a clever legal solution, Elizabeth had assumed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z No white person will be allowed a passport—and if they get into the country they will have no legal rights. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The court agreed with the suffragists’ legal arguments. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Another legal option for officers frustrated by a motorist’s refusal to grant “consent” is to bring a drug-sniffing dog to the scene. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When the problem was first noticed, the legal counsel had advised that there should be no product recall, but rather, Customer Service should go with a "replace as requested" plan. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if Dusty’s totally legal? What if the pollution is coming from somewhere else?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z "But I am her legal guardian while she's here, correct? Did her parents make that clear?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z |
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