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JUDGE POSNER ADMITS TO DECIDING CASES ON THE BASIS OF FAIRNESS, NOT LAW

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/us/politics/judge-richard...
stubborn multi-billionaire
  09/15/17
Awesome. As they should be
henna underhanded codepig
  09/15/17
Horseshit. That's terrible for for predictability.
aphrodisiac love of her life
  09/15/17
Jajajajaja
henna underhanded codepig
  09/15/17
just predict what's fair
Flushed marvelous lettuce forum
  09/15/17
Flame or not flame? If not flame, that's largely what str...
aphrodisiac love of her life
  09/15/17
Laws aren't fair though
henna underhanded codepig
  09/15/17
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stubborn multi-billionaire
  10/16/17
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stubborn multi-billionaire
  09/15/17
judges like this are why you settle litigation. i have appe...
costumed dysfunction institution
  09/15/17
but didnt he masquerade his feeling of "right" wit...
stubborn multi-billionaire
  09/15/17
Posner did. The judge(s) I'm talking about rule from the be...
costumed dysfunction institution
  09/15/17
...
Frozen Location Prole
  09/15/17
Truff, bro. Judges like this are also why the Russian way of...
Topaz Goyim Travel Guidebook
  09/15/17
Some day you will get arrested for what you write. It will m...
Boyish Green Hall
  09/15/17
(mentally ill fascist shitlib)
Chrome degenerate
  09/15/17
Before or after Red Dawn?
Topaz Goyim Travel Guidebook
  09/15/17
...
appetizing address
  09/16/17
Had a judge say he was going to limit our depositions to 16 ...
embarrassed to the bone bearded bbw pocket flask
  10/16/17
DESCRIBE the amount of projection in these statements: --...
Histrionic slimy state
  09/15/17
this is why judges need to be intimidated
tripping resort
  09/15/17
should be impeached.
big bawdyhouse mental disorder
  09/15/17
He retired.
Mustard cracking home feces
  09/15/17
he retired
Flushed marvelous lettuce forum
  09/15/17
*imprisoned
gold stirring pervert
  09/15/17
this is exactly why us law is a national embarrassment
Frozen Location Prole
  09/15/17
He has been running this schtick for literally decades.
infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested
  09/15/17
lol @ "the law"
aromatic abode party of the first part
  09/15/17
That's always bee his schtick (except that "fairness&qu...
Excitant old irish cottage mad-dog skullcap
  09/15/17
this doesnt suck--he is talking reality--judges dont really ...
stubborn multi-billionaire
  09/15/17
Yes it does, because it fucks up the law for all the other l...
Excitant old irish cottage mad-dog skullcap
  09/15/17
I agree with all this. In fairness, though, Posner's vaunted...
infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested
  09/15/17
link?
exciting trailer park
  09/15/17
Daniel A. Farber, Do Theories of Statutory Interpretation Ma...
infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested
  09/15/17
But aren't you assuming that there is actually a formalist c...
stubborn multi-billionaire
  09/15/17
That doesn't mean any old interpretation is just as valid as...
Excitant old irish cottage mad-dog skullcap
  09/15/17
Careful he is leading you down a subthread wasteland.
infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested
  09/15/17
...
exciting trailer park
  09/15/17
It would be funny to see Posner's reaction from the other si...
bipolar floppy national
  09/15/17
Old England had courts of equity. If you could not get justi...
Boyish Green Hall
  09/15/17
And in Russia you just blow up the dude giving you a problem...
Topaz Goyim Travel Guidebook
  09/15/17
(pudgy dork with a compliance job)
Swollen piazza
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...
hateful irradiated psychic heaven
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...
stubborn multi-billionaire
  09/17/17
That's not at all how the equity - law divide worked. Wtf.
infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested
  09/15/17
So let equity swallow it all? Maybe. But even the exer...
aphrodisiac love of her life
  09/15/17
Just like every other judge in Amerikwa
hairraiser slate wagecucks
  09/15/17
...
stubborn multi-billionaire
  09/15/17
...
stubborn multi-billionaire
  09/20/17
This "forget about the law" thinking is how you en...
Salmon Slap-happy Black Woman Locale
  09/15/17
To be fair, sexual orientation discrimination is gender-base...
Excitant old irish cottage mad-dog skullcap
  09/15/17
The "law" States that if your 6 year old son deman...
Heady sinister dopamine
  09/15/17
OMG THAT'S SO ZEN AND ICONOCLASTIC. SO 'PRAGMATIC'! HEHEHE...
cerebral office
  09/15/17
moar like pozner amirite
Chrome degenerate
  09/15/17
'THE LAW' IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE, THE PLEBES. I AM ABOVE T...
cerebral office
  09/15/17
imagine having a 7th cir argument in front of Posner or East...
bateful private investor cuckoldry
  09/15/17
(Albert Alschuler)
infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested
  09/15/17
Not earth shattering legal advice. Counseled clients into se...
Beady-eyed National Security Agency
  09/16/17
God, the terror of having to make a practical argument.
orange 180 shrine
  09/17/17
Dear Posner, Did anyone ever tell you that you think far ...
aphrodisiac love of her life
  09/15/17
elaborate
stubborn multi-billionaire
  09/16/17
The best legal writing has a strong, logical, well structure...
aphrodisiac love of her life
  09/16/17
(Selya)
infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested
  09/16/17
A nut from a different tree.
aphrodisiac love of her life
  09/16/17
I'm partial to Friendly's method of writing opinions, but it...
infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested
  09/16/17
Kill yourself. Selya is awesome.
Stimulating Wrinkle School
  09/17/17
? I like Selya. Was just trying to think of who might level ...
infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested
  09/17/17
*heaves sigh of relief*
Stimulating Wrinkle School
  09/17/17
This is why he got magna-pwned. Prescient HLS faculty wanted...
Light at-the-ready macaca center
  09/16/17
Kennedy, J., concurring
buck-toothed weed whacker
  09/16/17
Good to have a smart guy inside the judiciary who's willing ...
thriller cordovan stage voyeur
  09/16/17
can't stop lolling at 'the law' what a joke
cerebral office
  09/16/17
think there was something about this on last Saturday's LSAT
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  09/20/17
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stubborn multi-billionaire
  09/28/17


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Date: September 15th, 2017 10:51 AM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/us/politics/judge-richard-posner-retirement.html

He called his approach to judging pragmatic. His critics called it lawless. “I pay very little attention to legal rules, statutes, constitutional provisions,” Judge Posner said. “A case is just a dispute. The first thing you do is ask yourself — forget about the law — what is a sensible resolution of this dispute?”

The next thing, he said, was to see if a recent Supreme Court precedent or some other legal obstacle stood in the way of ruling in favor of that sensible resolution. “And the answer is that’s actually rarely the case,” he said. “When you have a Supreme Court case or something similar, they’re often extremely easy to get around.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34216937)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 10:51 AM
Author: henna underhanded codepig

Awesome. As they should be

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34216956)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:35 PM
Author: aphrodisiac love of her life

Horseshit.

That's terrible for for predictability.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218674)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:36 PM
Author: henna underhanded codepig

Jajajajaja

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218676)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:40 PM
Author: Flushed marvelous lettuce forum

just predict what's fair

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218695)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:45 PM
Author: aphrodisiac love of her life

Flame or not flame?

If not flame, that's largely what structured law is for.

It provides the rules for determining what's fair.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218727)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:45 PM
Author: henna underhanded codepig

Laws aren't fair though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218731)



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Date: October 16th, 2017 7:12 PM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34458247)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 7:22 PM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34220653)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 10:53 AM
Author: costumed dysfunction institution

judges like this are why you settle litigation. i have appeared before this one federal judge where you can literally show them their own published cases saying "Point of Law X" on the exact same facts, sometimes with the exact same parties, and they will say "I think I'm going to rule Point of Law Not X because it feels right."

charlatans.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34216964)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 10:56 AM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire

but didnt he masquerade his feeling of "right" with a plethora of legal citations ?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217001)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 1:32 PM
Author: costumed dysfunction institution

Posner did. The judge(s) I'm talking about rule from the bench and never issue anything in writing other than the transcript so that they can't be reversed on appeal or ever called out

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218203)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:23 AM
Author: Frozen Location Prole



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217241)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:31 AM
Author: Topaz Goyim Travel Guidebook

Truff, bro. Judges like this are also why the Russian way of just firing a few AK clips into the judges car with him in it is by far the credited response.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217278)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:37 AM
Author: Boyish Green Hall

Some day you will get arrested for what you write. It will make me happy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217315)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:40 AM
Author: Chrome degenerate

(mentally ill fascist shitlib)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217333)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:42 AM
Author: Topaz Goyim Travel Guidebook

Before or after Red Dawn?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217336)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 10:16 PM
Author: appetizing address



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34226787)



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Date: October 16th, 2017 8:04 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone bearded bbw pocket flask

Had a judge say he was going to limit our depositions to 16 because his birthday was on the 16th. Seems fair

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34458568)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 10:57 AM
Author: Histrionic slimy state

DESCRIBE the amount of projection in these statements:

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“I pay very little attention to legal rules, statutes, constitutional provisions,” Judge Posner said. “A case is just a dispute. The first thing you do is ask yourself — forget about the law — what is a sensible resolution of this dispute?”

The next thing, he said, was to see if a recent Supreme Court precedent or some other legal obstacle stood in the way of ruling in favor of that sensible resolution. “And the answer is that’s actually rarely the case,” he said. “When you have a Supreme Court case or something similar, they’re often extremely easy to get around.”

I asked him about his critics, and he said they fell into two camps.

***

He said he had less sympathy for the second camp. “There are others who are just, you know, reactionary beasts,” he said. “They’re reactionary beasts because they want to manipulate the statutes and the Constitution in their own way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217007)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:02 AM
Author: tripping resort

this is why judges need to be intimidated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217057)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:04 AM
Author: big bawdyhouse mental disorder

should be impeached.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217065)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:22 AM
Author: Mustard cracking home feces

He retired.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217221)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:40 PM
Author: Flushed marvelous lettuce forum

he retired

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218701)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 7:24 PM
Author: gold stirring pervert

*imprisoned

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34220667)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:22 AM
Author: Frozen Location Prole

this is exactly why us law is a national embarrassment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217231)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:24 AM
Author: infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested

He has been running this schtick for literally decades.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217248)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:27 AM
Author: aromatic abode party of the first part

lol @ "the law"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217260)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:32 AM
Author: Excitant old irish cottage mad-dog skullcap

That's always bee his schtick (except that "fairness" to him means "economic rationality"), and the main reason he sucks. This shouldn't be a surprise.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217288)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:35 AM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire

this doesnt suck--he is talking reality--judges dont really decide cases based on what 18 USC 2340 says, bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217302)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:36 AM
Author: Excitant old irish cottage mad-dog skullcap

Yes it does, because it fucks up the law for all the other litigants that actually try to fucking follow the law (or at least act according to the law). You look at the law, and it's pretty clear on one point or another, but there's this shit Posner case out there that fucks everything up and injects uncertainty.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217307)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:38 AM
Author: infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested

I agree with all this. In fairness, though, Posner's vaunted pragmatism doesn't appear to have influenced how he actually decided cases all that much, as an empirical matter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217317)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:53 PM
Author: exciting trailer park

link?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218779)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 3:48 PM
Author: infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested

Daniel A. Farber, Do Theories of Statutory Interpretation Matter--A Case Study, 94 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1409 (1999),

Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/facpubs/1724

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34219134)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:42 AM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire

But aren't you assuming that there is actually a formalist conception of law? Isn't law at the end of the day a matter of interpretation?

like whether a doctor violated the standard of care in a malpractice suit--isn't that all interpretation?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217344)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:43 AM
Author: Excitant old irish cottage mad-dog skullcap

That doesn't mean any old interpretation is just as valid as any other interpretation. Jesus are you still a law student after 10 years?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217350)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:49 AM
Author: infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested

Careful he is leading you down a subthread wasteland.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217381)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:53 PM
Author: exciting trailer park



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218782)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:35 AM
Author: bipolar floppy national

It would be funny to see Posner's reaction from the other side of the bench when some judge told him "I'm not concerned about what the law says, I'm looking for the reasonable solution here. Also I will bring in my own evidence from outside the record to support my conclusion."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217303)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:36 AM
Author: Boyish Green Hall

Old England had courts of equity. If you could not get justice in the court of law, you went to the court of equity. This isn't all that earth shattering.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217308)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:38 AM
Author: Topaz Goyim Travel Guidebook

And in Russia you just blow up the dude giving you a problem. Makes for a mich more civil society when you just kill dudes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217324)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:48 AM
Author: Swollen piazza

(pudgy dork with a compliance job)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217377)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 10:21 AM
Author: hateful irradiated psychic heaven



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34222985)



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Date: September 17th, 2017 5:42 PM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34231097)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:39 AM
Author: infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested

That's not at all how the equity - law divide worked. Wtf.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217325)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:36 PM
Author: aphrodisiac love of her life

So let equity swallow it all?

Maybe.

But even the exercise of equity is (or at least should be) subject to principles of law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218678)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 11:49 AM
Author: hairraiser slate wagecucks

Just like every other judge in Amerikwa

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34217382)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 1:18 PM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218046)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:59 AM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34250150)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:34 PM
Author: Salmon Slap-happy Black Woman Locale

This "forget about the law" thinking is how you end up with rulings like the Title VII case where the Seventh Circuit said a law that explicitly bans gender and racial discrimination also implicitly bans discrimination based on sexual orientation, even though the law doesn't say anything about that.

Why even have a legislature if the judges are just going to do whatever they want, laws and Constitution be damned? If Posner's retirement means we get a new judge who will predictably and faithfully follow the law, then good riddance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218667)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:50 PM
Author: Excitant old irish cottage mad-dog skullcap

To be fair, sexual orientation discrimination is gender-based discrimination in 90% of cases.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218764)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:37 PM
Author: Heady sinister dopamine

The "law" States that if your 6 year old son demands to be a girl you will have the state take him and feed him estrogen if you refuse.

Ljl at our "laws", what a joke.

I love reactionary dandies like this judge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218685)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 2:54 PM
Author: cerebral office

OMG THAT'S SO ZEN AND ICONOCLASTIC. SO 'PRAGMATIC'!

HEHEHEHE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34218791)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 3:49 PM
Author: Chrome degenerate

moar like pozner amirite

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34219138)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 7:28 PM
Author: cerebral office

'THE LAW' IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE, THE PLEBES. I AM ABOVE THE LAW. I AM PURE. I ABIDE BY A HIGHER TRANSENDENT STANDARD OF COMSIC JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS.

OOOOH LOOK AT MY ROBES! I'M LIKE A WIZARD!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34220685)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 7:32 PM
Author: bateful private investor cuckoldry

imagine having a 7th cir argument in front of Posner or Easterbrook.

you'd tell your client, "look, they are going to ignore all the facts and law we've been arguing about for years. they're just going to do whatever they want. and there's a good chance they will trash me, trash opposing counsel, or both of us, just for fun."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34220706)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 8:06 PM
Author: infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested

(Albert Alschuler)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34220841)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 10:32 AM
Author: Beady-eyed National Security Agency

Not earth shattering legal advice. Counseled clients into settlements for similar reasons in 9th circuit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34223018)



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Date: September 17th, 2017 6:15 PM
Author: orange 180 shrine

God, the terror of having to make a practical argument.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34231248)



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Date: September 15th, 2017 9:42 PM
Author: aphrodisiac love of her life

Dear Posner,

Did anyone ever tell you that you think far too much of your legal writing abilities?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34221233)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 8:53 PM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire

elaborate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34226371)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 9:56 PM
Author: aphrodisiac love of her life

The best legal writing has a strong, logical, well structured heart.

In addition to playing fast and loose with the facts, Posner sacrifices much of that in service to his goal of telling simple stories for the masses.

That's not a call for jargon or any such nonsense. Posner simply isn't as good a writer as some other notable judges, but Posner doesn't seem to understand that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34226681)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 9:59 PM
Author: infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested

(Selya)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34226694)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 10:04 PM
Author: aphrodisiac love of her life

A nut from a different tree.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34226723)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 10:09 PM
Author: infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested

I'm partial to Friendly's method of writing opinions, but it is an acquired taste.

I'd rank Easterbrook over Posner on the Seventh Circuit. This includes both opinions and scholarship.

Some DC Cir. judges are good, but boring.

To name some ladies of the bar, I've been favorably impressed by King (5th Cir.) and Kearse (2d Cir.).

Did you ever try to read Posner's N.D. Il. damages opinions (he sought to sit by designation a few times)?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34226753)



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Date: September 17th, 2017 7:23 PM
Author: Stimulating Wrinkle School

Kill yourself. Selya is awesome.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34231577)



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Date: September 17th, 2017 7:35 PM
Author: infuriating erotic partner idea he suggested

? I like Selya. Was just trying to think of who might level this type of charge at Posner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34231633)



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Date: September 17th, 2017 7:47 PM
Author: Stimulating Wrinkle School

*heaves sigh of relief*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34231675)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 10:54 PM
Author: Light at-the-ready macaca center

This is why he got magna-pwned. Prescient HLS faculty wanted to put him in his place.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34226953)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 9:26 PM
Author: buck-toothed weed whacker

Kennedy, J., concurring

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34226532)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 10:46 PM
Author: thriller cordovan stage voyeur

Good to have a smart guy inside the judiciary who's willing to speak up when something doesn't make sense. You guys want judges like Scalia who talk about the letter of the law disingenuously and reach whatever result they want?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34226906)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 10:56 PM
Author: cerebral office

can't stop lolling at 'the law'

what a joke

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34226972)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:00 AM
Author: adventurous puppy ape

think there was something about this on last Saturday's LSAT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34250158)



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Date: September 28th, 2017 3:23 PM
Author: stubborn multi-billionaire



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3732746&forum_id=2#34318718)