To: 11th_VA
Law and justice never met. All the courts are concerned with is the refinement of the law in all its myriad details.
The attempt to perfect rationalism as a legal philosophy was known to be doomed to failure.
Cases such as this are the unavoidable result of the attempt to write laws to cover all situations rather than relying on judgment.
The Greeks knew this back when Athens had only 40,000 people.
8 posted on
11/30/2005 9:07:06 PM PST by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principle)
To: GladesGuru
They probably have a law on the books that says a judgment based on fraud is an absolute nulity.
They are just choosing to ignore it.
This is a judgment call - a bad judgment call.
In Germany, a couple of dads took their case to the German supreme court on this issue. They lost. The 'dads' had gotten private DNA tests proving they were not the fathers.
The court went as far to say that they thought the fathers should be jailed for a year for getting the private tests done.
To: GladesGuru
28 posted on
11/30/2005 10:10:38 PM PST by
ghostcat
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