For a particularly badly reasoned equal access opinion in a case involving a gay straight alliance club see Caudillo v. Lubbock ISD. It is not yet posted on Westlaw or loislaw, but it is available on the Northern District of Texas website. Marc Stern
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Douglas Laycock Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:28 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Blackmun Papers In my student days at Chicago, the formulation "the opinion won't write" was attributed to Karl Llewellyn. My guess would be it appears in The Common Law Tradition (1960), or Jurisprudence (1962), but possibly much earlier in The Bramblebush (1930). And I would guess that he heard it from some older judge. At 10:04 AM 3/4/2004 -0800, David Cruz wrote: >The federal appellate judge for whom I clerked maintained that sometimes >"the opinion won't write," which >sounds a lot like what Kennedy is reported to have said about his original >Lee v. Weisman draft. Douglas Laycock University of Texas Law School 727 E. Dean Keeton St. Austin, TX 78705 512-232-1341 (voice) 512-471-6988 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw
