C4 Business Digest C1 EDITORIAL A20-21 Editorials: John Paul's Mideast journey; a wise ruling on campus fees; Verlyn Klinkenborg on the Whitney Biennial.
Lisa Appignanesi President, English PEN I think it was wise ruling and the Scottish justice minister's statement was a good one and felt very just.
In a wise ruling last month, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson declared that same-sex couples "must be allowed to marry in order to obtain equal protection of the law under the New Jersey Constitution".
Suzi Leather, chairwoman of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, which regulates in-vitro fertilization treatment in Britain, said that Dame Elizabeth had made a wise ruling in a "unique and clearly unfortunate case".
As federal agencies continue to roll out their rules for allowing federal benefits for lawfully married same-sex couples, the reach of the Supreme Court's wise ruling in June striking down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act has come into sharper focus.
This is not all bad news, since some cases serve as teachable moments for what is wrong with the patent system, and a wise ruling from the bench can help clarify policy goals and challenges.
Obama came into office emphasizing bureaucratic efficiency, which he believed would lead to wise rulings.
Among the "wise" rulings by Judge Nicholas Garaufis is one decreeing that reading comprehension ability is not required to be a firefighter and another that allows black applicants to resubmit incomplete applications to take the test but prevents applicants of other groups — Asian, Hispanic or white — from doing the same.
(The first issue that Aquinas takes up about human law in his set-piece discussion of law, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 95 a. 1, is whether human law [positive law] is beneficial might we not do better with exhortations and warnings, or with judges appointed simply to "do justice", or with wise leaders ruling as they see fit? And see I.3 below).
In a statement, Governor Paterson lauded the ruling as "a wise and fair determination of the policy that holds valid same-sex marriages legally performed in other states".
