Some time back, I was obliged to read many Appeals Court and Supreme Court decisions including a variety of US Supreme Court rulings and noted then that over time the decisions became flabbier and flabbier. Dignity disappeared from the very language of the opinions along with brevity and clarity. The decisions began to be overladen with bloated and often slanted expositions on the factual backgrounds of the case.
Glancing over today’s decision in the Warhol case... https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-869_87ad.pdf...I find that the quality of writing has deteriorated even further to the level of a lifestyle magazine article.
I have not looked at these decisions in this light, altho I agree that brevity has been lost. I have not seen a change in philosophical approach by individual justices that I can trace to a change in the style of opinions. Then again , I have not endeavored to seek out this connection.
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