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Sunday, August 26. 2012

A well-written opinion

This appellate decision from 1993 (h/t Volokh) is interesting to read, as much for its content as for the decision.


It tells a life story and a legal story, but the quality of the writing is what most impressed me. That judge's clerk can write, and knows how to tell a Dickensian story. (Clerk informs, judge decides, clerk writes.)


Correction via reader: Judge Posner writes his own opinions!

Posted by Bird Dog at 13:52 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Posner, unique among judges, writes his own opinions. His clerks inform, he decides, he writes, the clerks edit.
#1 TomB on 2012-08-26 14:37 (Reply)
Then kudos to Posner.
#1.1 BD on 2012-08-26 15:02 (Reply)
Ruby Lee Daniels = Deamonte Driver's mother.

Self-inflicted problems. A string of bad personal choices, each one worse than the last. I have no sympathy. It's not my responsibility to clean up after such people. It's a mess of their own making; they own it.
#2 Agent Cooper on 2012-08-26 18:34 (Reply)
I have sympathy for their misery, but no reason to think other people can solve their problems for them.
#2.1 Texan99 (Link) on 2012-08-26 19:09 (Reply)
The bumper sticker summary (Stupid is Supposed to Hurt) keeps coming to mind. Yet, I can't help feeling sympathetic.

One thing seems certain, spending someone else's money encourages more of the same
#3 Estoy Listo on 2012-08-27 09:51 (Reply)

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