January 2011
17 posts
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“Montagues tend to stick with Montagues, Capulets with Capulets. It does not...”
– Brinson v. Walker
547 F.3d 387
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“So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities that...”
– The Federalist Papers, No. 10
James Madison
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“Mathematics, a veritable sorcerer in our computerized society, while assisting...”
– People v. Collins
68 Cal. 2d 319
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“It is true that the law demands that a [j]udge be imperturbable. However, he can...”
– Milam v. United States
322 F.2d 104
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“Nothing in the situation gave notice that the falling package had in it the...”
– Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co.
248 N.Y. 339
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“The right to practice law is not one of the inherent rights of every citizen, as...”
– In re Keenan, 314 Mass. 544
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“Once inside, they rummaged through the house, taking items of personal property,...”
– Attorney Grievance Comm’n of Maryland v. Protokowicz
329 Md. 252
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“No argument as to woman’s need of suffrage can be considered. We can only...”
– Minor v. Happersett
88 U.S. 162
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“The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain...”
– Karl Marx
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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“Plaintiff was asked how often he prepares meals, and he wrote, “I try to eat a...”
– Snetselaar v. Astrue
588 F. Supp. 2d 1030
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“We cannot intelligibly assume, arguendo, that a search was constitutionally...”
– United States v. Leon
468 U.S. 897
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“I am told that the law students of today are indignantly opposed to final...”
– Oral Arguments, The Pentagon Papers
New York Times Co. v. United States
403 U.S. 713
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“Defendant purported to believe, which the trial court accepted at face value,...”
– State v. Thompson
162 Vt. 532
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“The Indian problem is essentially a sociological problem, not a legal one. We...”
– Nw. Bands of Shoshone Indians v. United States
324 U.S. 335
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“We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because...”
– Brown v. Allen
344 U.S. 443
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“In computing such damages for the breach of the contract of a fashionable...”
– Lewis v. Holmes
109 La. 1030
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“The fatuous choice of a fancied remedy that never existed, and the futile...”
– Harrill v. Davis
168 F. 187