CLE Panels of Judges
Have you noticed how many continuing legal education programs feature "judges panels" and urge you to attend so their honors can instruct you in how to win your next case?
A blurb about an upcoming "Legal Writing to Win" seminar in Texas highlights its "Judges Panel: The Worst Things We See in Briefs".
Is the liberal love affair with Anthony Kennedy — which should have ended five years ago with his preposterously patronizing opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart upholding the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and suggesting that women are incapable of acting in their own best interests — finally over?
Linda Greenhouse, "The Mystery of John Roberts
You know things probably won't turn out well when the first sentence in a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court opinion quotes from a 158 year-old novel.
Dickensian
So begins Chief Justice John Roberts's opus for the majority in Stern v. Marshall, No. 10-179 (U.S. June 23, 2011). It says:
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