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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...
zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  09/15/17
Awesome. As they should be
Sadistic associate
  09/15/17
Horseshit. That's terrible for for predictability.
chest-beating step-uncle's house
  09/15/17
Jajajajaja
Sadistic associate
  09/15/17
just predict what's fair
Apoplectic national idiot
  09/15/17
Flame or not flame? If not flame, that's largely what str...
chest-beating step-uncle's house
  09/15/17
Laws aren't fair though
Sadistic associate
  09/15/17
...
zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  10/16/17
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zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  09/15/17
judges like this are why you settle litigation. i have appe...
Yapping Greedy Toilet Seat Hospital
  09/15/17
but didnt he masquerade his feeling of "right" wit...
zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  09/15/17
Posner did. The judge(s) I'm talking about rule from the be...
Yapping Greedy Toilet Seat Hospital
  09/15/17
...
galvanic garrison multi-billionaire
  09/15/17
Truff, bro. Judges like this are also why the Russian way of...
cerebral indian lodge
  09/15/17
Some day you will get arrested for what you write. It will m...
Heady topaz volcanic crater
  09/15/17
(mentally ill fascist shitlib)
odious nubile stead voyeur
  09/15/17
Before or after Red Dawn?
cerebral indian lodge
  09/15/17
...
Charcoal rigpig business firm
  09/16/17
Had a judge say he was going to limit our depositions to 16 ...
crimson private investor institution
  10/16/17
DESCRIBE the amount of projection in these statements: --...
Vigorous Athletic Conference Forum
  09/15/17
this is why judges need to be intimidated
180 plaza
  09/15/17
should be impeached.
Silver vengeful church
  09/15/17
He retired.
comical ivory main people
  09/15/17
he retired
Apoplectic national idiot
  09/15/17
*imprisoned
diverse kitchen
  09/15/17
this is exactly why us law is a national embarrassment
galvanic garrison multi-billionaire
  09/15/17
He has been running this schtick for literally decades.
supple at-the-ready foreskin
  09/15/17
lol @ "the law"
mind-boggling chestnut cumskin
  09/15/17
That's always bee his schtick (except that "fairness&qu...
Alcoholic market quadroon
  09/15/17
this doesnt suck--he is talking reality--judges dont really ...
zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  09/15/17
Yes it does, because it fucks up the law for all the other l...
Alcoholic market quadroon
  09/15/17
I agree with all this. In fairness, though, Posner's vaunted...
supple at-the-ready foreskin
  09/15/17
link?
aphrodisiac onyx mad cow disease
  09/15/17
Daniel A. Farber, Do Theories of Statutory Interpretation Ma...
supple at-the-ready foreskin
  09/15/17
But aren't you assuming that there is actually a formalist c...
zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  09/15/17
That doesn't mean any old interpretation is just as valid as...
Alcoholic market quadroon
  09/15/17
Careful he is leading you down a subthread wasteland.
supple at-the-ready foreskin
  09/15/17
...
aphrodisiac onyx mad cow disease
  09/15/17
It would be funny to see Posner's reaction from the other si...
Ocher Sanctuary
  09/15/17
Old England had courts of equity. If you could not get justi...
Heady topaz volcanic crater
  09/15/17
And in Russia you just blow up the dude giving you a problem...
cerebral indian lodge
  09/15/17
(pudgy dork with a compliance job)
learning disabled cruise ship
  09/15/17
...
Autistic Bateful Mediation
  09/16/17
...
zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  09/17/17
That's not at all how the equity - law divide worked. Wtf.
supple at-the-ready foreskin
  09/15/17
So let equity swallow it all? Maybe. But even the exer...
chest-beating step-uncle's house
  09/15/17
Just like every other judge in Amerikwa
misunderstood citrine goyim feces
  09/15/17
...
zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  09/15/17
...
zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  09/20/17
This "forget about the law" thinking is how you en...
Pale native
  09/15/17
To be fair, sexual orientation discrimination is gender-base...
Alcoholic market quadroon
  09/15/17
The "law" States that if your 6 year old son deman...
dun ungodly school cafeteria nowag
  09/15/17
OMG THAT'S SO ZEN AND ICONOCLASTIC. SO 'PRAGMATIC'! HEHEHE...
arousing effete factory reset button
  09/15/17
moar like pozner amirite
odious nubile stead voyeur
  09/15/17
'THE LAW' IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE, THE PLEBES. I AM ABOVE T...
arousing effete factory reset button
  09/15/17
imagine having a 7th cir argument in front of Posner or East...
stubborn ticket booth
  09/15/17
(Albert Alschuler)
supple at-the-ready foreskin
  09/15/17
Not earth shattering legal advice. Counseled clients into se...
Magenta trip internal respiration
  09/16/17
God, the terror of having to make a practical argument.
Internet-worthy Ebony Old Irish Cottage Ladyboy
  09/17/17
Dear Posner, Did anyone ever tell you that you think far ...
chest-beating step-uncle's house
  09/15/17
elaborate
zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  09/16/17
The best legal writing has a strong, logical, well structure...
chest-beating step-uncle's house
  09/16/17
(Selya)
supple at-the-ready foreskin
  09/16/17
A nut from a different tree.
chest-beating step-uncle's house
  09/16/17
I'm partial to Friendly's method of writing opinions, but it...
supple at-the-ready foreskin
  09/16/17
Kill yourself. Selya is awesome.
tan pervert
  09/17/17
? I like Selya. Was just trying to think of who might level ...
supple at-the-ready foreskin
  09/17/17
*heaves sigh of relief*
tan pervert
  09/17/17
This is why he got magna-pwned. Prescient HLS faculty wanted...
Aromatic halford
  09/16/17
Kennedy, J., concurring
Translucent seedy bawdyhouse
  09/16/17
Good to have a smart guy inside the judiciary who's willing ...
dull appetizing background story
  09/16/17
can't stop lolling at 'the law' what a joke
arousing effete factory reset button
  09/16/17
think there was something about this on last Saturday's LSAT
Costumed nofapping mad-dog skullcap black woman
  09/20/17
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zombie-like piazza generalized bond
  09/28/17


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Date: September 15th, 2017 10:51 AM
Author: zombie-like piazza generalized bond

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: Sadistic associate

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: chest-beating step-uncle's house

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: Sadistic associate

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: Apoplectic national idiot

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: chest-beating step-uncle's house

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: Sadistic associate

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: zombie-like piazza generalized bond



(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: zombie-like piazza generalized bond



(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: Yapping Greedy Toilet Seat Hospital

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: zombie-like piazza generalized bond

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: Yapping Greedy Toilet Seat Hospital

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: galvanic garrison multi-billionaire



(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: cerebral indian lodge

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: Heady topaz volcanic crater

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: odious nubile stead voyeur

(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: cerebral indian lodge

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: Charcoal rigpig business firm



(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: crimson private investor institution

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: Vigorous Athletic Conference Forum

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: 180 plaza

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: Silver vengeful church

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: comical ivory main people

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: Apoplectic national idiot

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: diverse kitchen

*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: galvanic garrison multi-billionaire

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: supple at-the-ready foreskin

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: mind-boggling chestnut cumskin

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: Alcoholic market quadroon

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: zombie-like piazza generalized bond

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: Alcoholic market quadroon

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: supple at-the-ready foreskin

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: aphrodisiac onyx mad cow disease

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: supple at-the-ready foreskin

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: zombie-like piazza generalized bond

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: Alcoholic market quadroon

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: supple at-the-ready foreskin

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: aphrodisiac onyx mad cow disease



(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: Ocher Sanctuary

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: Heady topaz volcanic crater

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: cerebral indian lodge

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: learning disabled cruise ship

(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: Autistic Bateful Mediation



(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: zombie-like piazza generalized bond



(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: supple at-the-ready foreskin

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: chest-beating step-uncle's house

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: misunderstood citrine goyim feces

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: zombie-like piazza generalized bond



(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: zombie-like piazza generalized bond



(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: Pale native

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: Alcoholic market quadroon

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: dun ungodly school cafeteria nowag

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: arousing effete factory reset button

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: odious nubile stead voyeur

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: arousing effete factory reset button

'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: stubborn ticket booth

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: supple at-the-ready foreskin

(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: Magenta trip internal respiration

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: Internet-worthy Ebony Old Irish Cottage Ladyboy

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: chest-beating step-uncle's house

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: zombie-like piazza generalized bond

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: chest-beating step-uncle's house

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: supple at-the-ready foreskin

(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: chest-beating step-uncle's house

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: supple at-the-ready foreskin

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: tan pervert

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: supple at-the-ready foreskin

? 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: tan pervert

*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: Aromatic halford

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: Translucent seedy bawdyhouse

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: dull appetizing background story

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: arousing effete factory reset button

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: Costumed nofapping mad-dog skullcap black woman

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: zombie-like piazza generalized bond



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