RE: Blackmun Papers

2004-03-05 Thread AJCONGRESS
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 L

RE: Blackmun Papers

2004-03-05 Thread AJCONGRESS
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Cruz Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:05 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Blackmun Papers On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Lupu wrote: > Nina Totenberg reported on NPR this morning that the Blackmun &

Re: Blackmun Papers

2004-03-04 Thread Douglas Laycock
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 f

Re: Blackmun Papers

2004-03-04 Thread David Cruz
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Lupu wrote: > Nina Totenberg reported on NPR this morning that the Blackmun > papers reveal that Kennedy did exactly the same thing in 1992 in > Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which (she claimed) he was > originally the fifth vote for an opinion that would have overruled Roe,

RE: Blackmun Papers

2004-03-04 Thread AJCONGRESS
And it makes Justice O'Connor look like a paragon of stability. Marc Stern -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lupu Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re:

Re: Blackmun Papers

2004-03-04 Thread Lupu
Nina Totenberg reported on NPR this morning that the Blackmun papers reveal that Kennedy did exactly the same thing in 1992 in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which (she claimed) he was originally the fifth vote for an opinion that would have overruled Roe, but switched and joined with Souter a