Stolberg notes that Gorsuch's acceptance of them "leads some friends to wonder if his jurisprudence might be closer to that of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has carved out a name for himself as the court's conservative defender of gay rights".
"Given his recent jurisprudence, if anyone's going to rattle the S.E.C.'s cage on this issue, it's Judge Rakoff," said Michael Koehler, a professor of business law at Butler University who has written about the S.E.C.'s settlement practices.
Boies took the microphone and made the best case for the dramatic reading of the messy jurisprudence: if the trial had actually been broadcast it's unlikely that most would have watched the whole way through.
But whatever the societal expectations, they can attain constitutionally protected status only if our Fourth Amendment jurisprudence ceases to treat secrecy as a prerequisite for privacy.
Few who ever attended a session of the court in his era could fail to notice his sharpness and judicial star-power, even if his ideology and jurisprudence were mistaken in profound ways on almost every issue.
That was a "fairy-tale category" of patriots, Justice Scalia said, adding: "If our free-speech jurisprudence is to be determined by the predicted behavior of such crackpots, we are in a sorry state indeed".
If our First Amendment jurisprudence has taught us anything, it has taught us the importance of recognizing the value of symbolic dissent, even when unpopular, as a key mediating tool in integrating the marketplaces of prohibited and protected expression.
"If Mr. Moussa has a jurisprudence problem, he should refer back to Al Azhar," Mr. Aboul Fotouh said, since he's not a scholar or a jurist himself.
Bush v. Gore is the absolute poster child for purely political jurisprudence, and yet if you look at it as an equal protection case it gets all 9 votes wrong.One question, then, is this: Is there likely to be any ambiguity over how the Justices of the Supreme Court might choose to frame the challenge to Obamacare?
Perlin believes that Dylanhas had a lot to say about the law over the years, and that Dylan's songs lay out an entire system of legal philosophy — a jurisprudence of Bob Dylan, if you will — which Perlin has set out to decipher and, of course, publish one day in a reputable journal.
