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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...
salmon gaming laptop
  09/15/17
Awesome. As they should be
sooty marvelous station
  09/15/17
Horseshit. That's terrible for for predictability.
ocher alcoholic hall
  09/15/17
Jajajajaja
sooty marvelous station
  09/15/17
just predict what's fair
nudist property
  09/15/17
Flame or not flame? If not flame, that's largely what str...
ocher alcoholic hall
  09/15/17
Laws aren't fair though
sooty marvelous station
  09/15/17
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salmon gaming laptop
  10/16/17
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salmon gaming laptop
  09/15/17
judges like this are why you settle litigation. i have appe...
translucent address
  09/15/17
but didnt he masquerade his feeling of "right" wit...
salmon gaming laptop
  09/15/17
Posner did. The judge(s) I'm talking about rule from the be...
translucent address
  09/15/17
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Embarrassed To The Bone Bistre Institution
  09/15/17
Truff, bro. Judges like this are also why the Russian way of...
Bipolar aromatic associate codepig
  09/15/17
Some day you will get arrested for what you write. It will m...
henna really tough guy home
  09/15/17
(mentally ill fascist shitlib)
spruce corn cake
  09/15/17
Before or after Red Dawn?
Bipolar aromatic associate codepig
  09/15/17
...
Pink resort
  09/16/17
Had a judge say he was going to limit our depositions to 16 ...
bossy box office therapy
  10/16/17
DESCRIBE the amount of projection in these statements: --...
mustard unholy international law enforcement agency
  09/15/17
this is why judges need to be intimidated
rose partner
  09/15/17
should be impeached.
know-it-all senate
  09/15/17
He retired.
effete circlehead clown
  09/15/17
he retired
nudist property
  09/15/17
*imprisoned
Plum Pistol
  09/15/17
this is exactly why us law is a national embarrassment
Embarrassed To The Bone Bistre Institution
  09/15/17
He has been running this schtick for literally decades.
Gaped Juggernaut Mexican
  09/15/17
lol @ "the law"
Adventurous shimmering generalized bond
  09/15/17
That's always bee his schtick (except that "fairness&qu...
Blue French Chef Queen Of The Night
  09/15/17
this doesnt suck--he is talking reality--judges dont really ...
salmon gaming laptop
  09/15/17
Yes it does, because it fucks up the law for all the other l...
Blue French Chef Queen Of The Night
  09/15/17
I agree with all this. In fairness, though, Posner's vaunted...
Gaped Juggernaut Mexican
  09/15/17
link?
Yapping lay
  09/15/17
Daniel A. Farber, Do Theories of Statutory Interpretation Ma...
Gaped Juggernaut Mexican
  09/15/17
But aren't you assuming that there is actually a formalist c...
salmon gaming laptop
  09/15/17
That doesn't mean any old interpretation is just as valid as...
Blue French Chef Queen Of The Night
  09/15/17
Careful he is leading you down a subthread wasteland.
Gaped Juggernaut Mexican
  09/15/17
...
Yapping lay
  09/15/17
It would be funny to see Posner's reaction from the other si...
multi-colored cheese-eating rigpig degenerate
  09/15/17
Old England had courts of equity. If you could not get justi...
henna really tough guy home
  09/15/17
And in Russia you just blow up the dude giving you a problem...
Bipolar aromatic associate codepig
  09/15/17
(pudgy dork with a compliance job)
slate shivering round eye
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exciting talking parlour
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salmon gaming laptop
  09/17/17
That's not at all how the equity - law divide worked. Wtf.
Gaped Juggernaut Mexican
  09/15/17
So let equity swallow it all? Maybe. But even the exer...
ocher alcoholic hall
  09/15/17
Just like every other judge in Amerikwa
Boyish doobsian library
  09/15/17
...
salmon gaming laptop
  09/15/17
...
salmon gaming laptop
  09/20/17
This "forget about the law" thinking is how you en...
flickering fat ankles plaza
  09/15/17
To be fair, sexual orientation discrimination is gender-base...
Blue French Chef Queen Of The Night
  09/15/17
The "law" States that if your 6 year old son deman...
Floppy jet-lagged stag film
  09/15/17
OMG THAT'S SO ZEN AND ICONOCLASTIC. SO 'PRAGMATIC'! HEHEHE...
electric zombie-like dopamine
  09/15/17
moar like pozner amirite
spruce corn cake
  09/15/17
'THE LAW' IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE, THE PLEBES. I AM ABOVE T...
electric zombie-like dopamine
  09/15/17
imagine having a 7th cir argument in front of Posner or East...
slippery carmine university volcanic crater
  09/15/17
(Albert Alschuler)
Gaped Juggernaut Mexican
  09/15/17
Not earth shattering legal advice. Counseled clients into se...
Bat shit crazy brunch
  09/16/17
God, the terror of having to make a practical argument.
beady-eyed red newt business firm
  09/17/17
Dear Posner, Did anyone ever tell you that you think far ...
ocher alcoholic hall
  09/15/17
elaborate
salmon gaming laptop
  09/16/17
The best legal writing has a strong, logical, well structure...
ocher alcoholic hall
  09/16/17
(Selya)
Gaped Juggernaut Mexican
  09/16/17
A nut from a different tree.
ocher alcoholic hall
  09/16/17
I'm partial to Friendly's method of writing opinions, but it...
Gaped Juggernaut Mexican
  09/16/17
Kill yourself. Selya is awesome.
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  09/17/17
? I like Selya. Was just trying to think of who might level ...
Gaped Juggernaut Mexican
  09/17/17
*heaves sigh of relief*
heady marketing idea meetinghouse
  09/17/17
This is why he got magna-pwned. Prescient HLS faculty wanted...
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  09/16/17
Kennedy, J., concurring
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  09/16/17
Good to have a smart guy inside the judiciary who's willing ...
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  09/16/17
can't stop lolling at 'the law' what a joke
electric zombie-like dopamine
  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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Date: September 15th, 2017 10:51 AM
Author: salmon gaming laptop

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: sooty marvelous station

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: ocher alcoholic hall

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: sooty marvelous station

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: nudist property

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: ocher alcoholic hall

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: sooty marvelous station

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: salmon gaming laptop



(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: salmon gaming laptop



(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: translucent address

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: salmon gaming laptop

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: translucent address

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: Embarrassed To The Bone Bistre Institution



(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: Bipolar aromatic associate codepig

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: henna really tough guy home

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: spruce corn cake

(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: Bipolar aromatic associate codepig

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: Pink resort



(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: bossy box office therapy

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: mustard unholy international law enforcement agency

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: rose partner

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: know-it-all senate

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: effete circlehead clown

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: nudist property

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: Plum Pistol

*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: Embarrassed To The Bone Bistre Institution

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: Gaped Juggernaut Mexican

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: Adventurous shimmering generalized bond

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: Blue French Chef Queen Of The Night

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: salmon gaming laptop

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: Blue French Chef Queen Of The Night

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: Gaped Juggernaut Mexican

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: Yapping lay

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: Gaped Juggernaut Mexican

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: salmon gaming laptop

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: Blue French Chef Queen Of The Night

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: Gaped Juggernaut Mexican

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: Yapping lay



(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: multi-colored cheese-eating rigpig degenerate

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: henna really tough guy home

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: Bipolar aromatic associate codepig

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: slate shivering round eye

(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: exciting talking parlour



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Date: September 17th, 2017 5:42 PM
Author: salmon gaming laptop



(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: Gaped Juggernaut Mexican

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: ocher alcoholic hall

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: Boyish doobsian library

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: salmon gaming laptop



(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: salmon gaming laptop



(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: flickering fat ankles plaza

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: Blue French Chef Queen Of The Night

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: Floppy jet-lagged stag film

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: electric zombie-like dopamine

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: spruce corn cake

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: electric zombie-like dopamine

'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: slippery carmine university volcanic crater

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: Gaped Juggernaut Mexican

(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: Bat shit crazy brunch

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: beady-eyed red newt business firm

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: ocher alcoholic hall

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: salmon gaming laptop

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: ocher alcoholic hall

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: Gaped Juggernaut Mexican

(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: ocher alcoholic hall

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: Gaped Juggernaut Mexican

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)?

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Date: September 17th, 2017 7:23 PM
Author: heady marketing idea meetinghouse

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: Gaped Juggernaut Mexican

? 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: heady marketing idea meetinghouse

*heaves sigh of relief*

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Date: September 16th, 2017 10:54 PM
Author: cracking rough-skinned elastic band

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: Soul-stirring jade water buffalo

Kennedy, J., concurring

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Date: September 16th, 2017 10:46 PM
Author: Peach Factory Reset Button Space

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: electric zombie-like dopamine

can't stop lolling at 'the law'

what a joke

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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:00 AM
Author: sick faggot firefighter native

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: salmon gaming laptop



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