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- From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
- Subject: Re: Nyikos and his sources or Justice Blackmun, you choose.
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:17:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.011726.18250@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Summary: If he weren't so boring I'd catch more of this stuff
- References: <nyikos.720809715@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <33012@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
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- In article <33012@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>, smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- > In his most recent post in the thread Christian values or chauvinism
- > Petie <nyikos.722210537@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- > nyikos@math.scarolina.edu writes that Justice Blackmun is a hack legal
- > scholar who based RvW on "meager and biased documentation,"
- > particularly an article by Cyril Means in New York Law Forum.
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- I don't read all that Nyikos writes because the "Doctor" is not
- especially interesting. Thanks to Stephen Mezias for following
- the "Doctor's" article, else I wouldn't have read this.
- Assuming Mr Mezias' summary is correct, I note that Justice
- Blackmun was a Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, graduate of Harvard
- Law, clerked on the EIghth Circuit Court, and had sixteen years
- of private practice along with 10 years as general counsel for
- the Mayo Clinic (one of the reasons he was chosen to write the
- majority opinion in Roe v Wade was his experience in medical
- law). If these are the qualifications of a "hack legal scholar"
- then I wish I were such a hack. To say that his decision was based
- on "meager and biased documentation" is someting of an evasive
- statement. One might say that this article I am writing now is
- so based, since it arises from the article I am following, but in
- fact this article is based both on the article I am following,
- my lengthy experience in this forum, and a number of articles
- I have read about the Supreme Court and Justice Blackmun in
- particular. If I read the "meager...documentation" charge
- correctly, the "Doctor" seeks to imply that Justice Blackmun's
- researches were inadequate. I recommend that anyone who is interested
- in just how extensive those researches were read The Brethren.
- Aside from its being a very interesting book in general, it goes
- into detail over how extensive Justice Blackmun's researches on the
- abortion issue were. In fact, the abortion decision was considerably
- delayed because Justice Blackmun was so intent on making an
- exhaustive search of the literature.
-
- Dean Kaflowitz
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