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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...
white boyish corner immigrant
  09/15/17
Awesome. As they should be
mint exciting school dog poop
  09/15/17
Horseshit. That's terrible for for predictability.
Insecure henna lettuce messiness
  09/15/17
Jajajajaja
mint exciting school dog poop
  09/15/17
just predict what's fair
bat-shit-crazy fragrant digit ratio
  09/15/17
Flame or not flame? If not flame, that's largely what str...
Insecure henna lettuce messiness
  09/15/17
Laws aren't fair though
mint exciting school dog poop
  09/15/17
...
white boyish corner immigrant
  10/16/17
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white boyish corner immigrant
  09/15/17
judges like this are why you settle litigation. i have appe...
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  09/15/17
but didnt he masquerade his feeling of "right" wit...
white boyish corner immigrant
  09/15/17
Posner did. The judge(s) I'm talking about rule from the be...
Slate liquid oxygen legal warrant
  09/15/17
...
abusive gay codepig psychic
  09/15/17
Truff, bro. Judges like this are also why the Russian way of...
Misanthropic sable really tough guy
  09/15/17
Some day you will get arrested for what you write. It will m...
vibrant amber resort mad-dog skullcap
  09/15/17
(mentally ill fascist shitlib)
Plum range ladyboy
  09/15/17
Before or after Red Dawn?
Misanthropic sable really tough guy
  09/15/17
...
Chartreuse Know-it-all Church Tattoo
  09/16/17
Had a judge say he was going to limit our depositions to 16 ...
Stimulating locus
  10/16/17
DESCRIBE the amount of projection in these statements: --...
sick trip elastic band people who are hurt
  09/15/17
this is why judges need to be intimidated
Soul-stirring house sex offender
  09/15/17
should be impeached.
salmon partner sweet tailpipe
  09/15/17
He retired.
Iridescent preventive strike dragon
  09/15/17
he retired
bat-shit-crazy fragrant digit ratio
  09/15/17
*imprisoned
French lay multi-billionaire
  09/15/17
this is exactly why us law is a national embarrassment
abusive gay codepig psychic
  09/15/17
He has been running this schtick for literally decades.
Disgusting spectacular senate
  09/15/17
lol @ "the law"
Mustard Box Office Milk
  09/15/17
That's always bee his schtick (except that "fairness&qu...
Red razzle-dazzle incel community account
  09/15/17
this doesnt suck--he is talking reality--judges dont really ...
white boyish corner immigrant
  09/15/17
Yes it does, because it fucks up the law for all the other l...
Red razzle-dazzle incel community account
  09/15/17
I agree with all this. In fairness, though, Posner's vaunted...
Disgusting spectacular senate
  09/15/17
link?
painfully honest glassy piazza twinkling uncleanness
  09/15/17
Daniel A. Farber, Do Theories of Statutory Interpretation Ma...
Disgusting spectacular senate
  09/15/17
But aren't you assuming that there is actually a formalist c...
white boyish corner immigrant
  09/15/17
That doesn't mean any old interpretation is just as valid as...
Red razzle-dazzle incel community account
  09/15/17
Careful he is leading you down a subthread wasteland.
Disgusting spectacular senate
  09/15/17
...
painfully honest glassy piazza twinkling uncleanness
  09/15/17
It would be funny to see Posner's reaction from the other si...
Supple boiling water genital piercing
  09/15/17
Old England had courts of equity. If you could not get justi...
vibrant amber resort mad-dog skullcap
  09/15/17
And in Russia you just blow up the dude giving you a problem...
Misanthropic sable really tough guy
  09/15/17
(pudgy dork with a compliance job)
Maroon Dashing Puppy
  09/15/17
...
ivory racy becky hospital
  09/16/17
...
white boyish corner immigrant
  09/17/17
That's not at all how the equity - law divide worked. Wtf.
Disgusting spectacular senate
  09/15/17
So let equity swallow it all? Maybe. But even the exer...
Insecure henna lettuce messiness
  09/15/17
Just like every other judge in Amerikwa
Dark exhilarant hominid
  09/15/17
...
white boyish corner immigrant
  09/15/17
...
white boyish corner immigrant
  09/20/17
This "forget about the law" thinking is how you en...
glittery cuckoldry mediation
  09/15/17
To be fair, sexual orientation discrimination is gender-base...
Red razzle-dazzle incel community account
  09/15/17
The "law" States that if your 6 year old son deman...
Bull Headed Disrespectful Blood Rage
  09/15/17
OMG THAT'S SO ZEN AND ICONOCLASTIC. SO 'PRAGMATIC'! HEHEHE...
big shrine bbw
  09/15/17
moar like pozner amirite
Plum range ladyboy
  09/15/17
'THE LAW' IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE, THE PLEBES. I AM ABOVE T...
big shrine bbw
  09/15/17
imagine having a 7th cir argument in front of Posner or East...
Galvanic Duck-like Tanning Salon Pistol
  09/15/17
(Albert Alschuler)
Disgusting spectacular senate
  09/15/17
Not earth shattering legal advice. Counseled clients into se...
insane chad famous landscape painting
  09/16/17
God, the terror of having to make a practical argument.
Fuchsia multi-colored location candlestick maker
  09/17/17
Dear Posner, Did anyone ever tell you that you think far ...
Insecure henna lettuce messiness
  09/15/17
elaborate
white boyish corner immigrant
  09/16/17
The best legal writing has a strong, logical, well structure...
Insecure henna lettuce messiness
  09/16/17
(Selya)
Disgusting spectacular senate
  09/16/17
A nut from a different tree.
Insecure henna lettuce messiness
  09/16/17
I'm partial to Friendly's method of writing opinions, but it...
Disgusting spectacular senate
  09/16/17
Kill yourself. Selya is awesome.
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? I like Selya. Was just trying to think of who might level ...
Disgusting spectacular senate
  09/17/17
*heaves sigh of relief*
Transparent razzle university
  09/17/17
This is why he got magna-pwned. Prescient HLS faculty wanted...
Sapphire pit jew
  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
big shrine bbw
  09/16/17
think there was something about this on last Saturday's LSAT
Odious Heaven
  09/20/17
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white boyish corner immigrant
  09/28/17


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Date: September 15th, 2017 10:51 AM
Author: white boyish corner immigrant

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: mint exciting school dog poop

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: Insecure henna lettuce messiness

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: mint exciting school dog poop

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: bat-shit-crazy fragrant digit ratio

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: Insecure henna lettuce messiness

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: mint exciting school dog poop

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: white boyish corner immigrant



(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: white boyish corner immigrant



(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: Slate liquid oxygen legal warrant

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: white boyish corner immigrant

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: Slate liquid oxygen legal warrant

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: abusive gay codepig psychic



(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: Misanthropic sable really tough guy

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: vibrant amber resort mad-dog skullcap

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: Plum range ladyboy

(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: Misanthropic sable really tough guy

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: Chartreuse Know-it-all Church Tattoo



(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: Stimulating locus

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: sick trip elastic band people who are hurt

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: Soul-stirring house sex offender

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: salmon partner sweet tailpipe

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: Iridescent preventive strike dragon

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: bat-shit-crazy fragrant digit ratio

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: French lay multi-billionaire

*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: abusive gay codepig psychic

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: Disgusting spectacular senate

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: Mustard Box Office Milk

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: Red razzle-dazzle incel community account

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: white boyish corner immigrant

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: Red razzle-dazzle incel community account

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: Disgusting spectacular senate

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: painfully honest glassy piazza twinkling uncleanness

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: Disgusting spectacular senate

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: white boyish corner immigrant

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: Red razzle-dazzle incel community account

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: Disgusting spectacular senate

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: painfully honest glassy piazza twinkling uncleanness



(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: Supple boiling water genital piercing

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: vibrant amber resort mad-dog skullcap

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: Misanthropic sable really tough guy

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: Maroon Dashing Puppy

(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: ivory racy becky hospital



(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: white boyish corner immigrant



(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: Disgusting spectacular senate

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: Insecure henna lettuce messiness

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: Dark exhilarant hominid

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: white boyish corner immigrant



(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: white boyish corner immigrant



(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: glittery cuckoldry mediation

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: Red razzle-dazzle incel community account

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: Bull Headed Disrespectful Blood Rage

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: big shrine bbw

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: Plum range ladyboy

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: big shrine bbw

'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: Galvanic Duck-like Tanning Salon Pistol

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: Disgusting spectacular senate

(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: insane chad famous landscape painting

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: Fuchsia multi-colored location candlestick maker

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: Insecure henna lettuce messiness

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: white boyish corner immigrant

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: Insecure henna lettuce messiness

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: Disgusting spectacular senate

(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: Insecure henna lettuce messiness

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: Disgusting spectacular senate

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: Transparent razzle university

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: Disgusting spectacular senate

? 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: Transparent razzle university

*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: Sapphire pit jew

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: Jet wonderful stage

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: kink-friendly curious place of business

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: big shrine bbw

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: Odious Heaven

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: white boyish corner immigrant



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