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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: The Guns of roston
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 20:21:59 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <722088096.0@wyrm.rbbs-net.ORG>, Rick.Moen@f207.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Rick Moen) writes:
- >Perhaps you have by now seen the posting from my attorney friend, Terry
- >Preston, analysing Thomas Carter's prior citations of case law. I
- >recommend it to you. (Thomas's reference to the "Dred Scott"
- >slave-ownership decision was quite riotously funny, but I wanted to pass
- >it and the others past a good legal analyst, just in case.)
-
- Yup. We say your lawyer friend's response. He said "The Dred Scot case wasn't
- about the second amendment." Didn't bother reading the opinion, though, where
- the justices made some comments that DID bear on the second amendment. I'd
- recommend that you get yourself a different attorney.
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
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