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To: JohnnyZ

Yeah, consider this: the court tries to spread the task of writing opinions around. Senior-most justice on winning side assigns the task. Court will deliver written opinions in roughly 170 cases per year. So we'll get about 18 written opinions from her a year, for what, 10 years? Wonder how many of those will end up in law school texts?


11 posted on 10/17/2005 9:55:48 AM PDT by phelanw
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To: phelanw

"Wonder how many of those will end up in law school texts?"

I'm thinking more like freshmen English composition classes, on how not to write stultifying prose that comes to no conclusion even after a thousand words.


13 posted on 10/17/2005 10:01:44 AM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: phelanw

She won't write them, that's what interns are for.


17 posted on 10/17/2005 10:12:10 AM PDT by colorcountry (George W. Bush... Saving your ass whether you like it or not!)
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To: phelanw

Court will deliver written opinions in roughly 170 cases per year...

Not nearly that many--more like less than half of 170 according to the following:

Link

The number of slip opinions published each Term has varied over the years from as few as 75 to as many as 150.

The number of cases handled by the Court -- with full opinions -- has been reduced substantially in recent decades, from some 140-150 to 70-90.

Source

80 opinions this past term.

'04 Slip Opinions

19 posted on 10/17/2005 10:25:05 AM PDT by elli1
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To: phelanw

"Wonder how many of those will end up in law school texts?"

The one that overturn Roe V Wade will.


31 posted on 10/17/2005 11:47:07 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: phelanw
Some justices have relied almost entirely on their clerks to write opinions especially as they grew older.
48 posted on 10/17/2005 8:50:11 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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