On the sixtieth anniversary (this month) of the most important decision of the Supreme Court in 20th century legal history, there are three things about Brown vs. Board of Education that strike a note: its brevity, its unanimity and its tone. Brown contrasts with today’s Supreme Court decisions which are often lengthy, divided ...
A youngster looks up at a gigantic glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly and says: “Wow, how did he DO THAT!?” The sculpture is an installation of blown glass, glowing with color, suspended in space, enormous in scale but as delicate as a living sea creature. The young question is one of the highest compliments a viewer of any age can pay a work of art ...
The Supreme Court ruled (5-4) this week in Greece v. Galloway that the Upstate New York town of Greece’s practice of opening its town board meetings with a prayer (given by clergy selected from a local directory) does not violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Certain facts limit the Court’s ruling: the prayer was ...
So ask yourself. What ideas or insights are you more likely to believe: those that someone tells you you should or must believe, or those that you discover yourself? Once we reach the age of reason, most of us prefer to make up our own minds and discover for ourselves. So the trial lawyer knows that the advocate’s role is to lead the jury to discover ...