U.S. Supreme Court
Sep. 10, 2016
When officials enforce laws in bizarre ways, taxpayers pay
A recent case involving the display of a painting containing a Confederate flag at a county fair shows why Legislators, when crafting statutory language, shouldn't only consider "reasonable interpretations." By Kenneth White
Kenneth P. White
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Harvard Univ Law School
The "butterfly effect," as used in chaos theory, is the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil may help cause a tornado in Kansas. In law and politics, the butterfly effect is both more prosaic and more perverse. It shows us that a state legislator's mother becoming annoyed in a gift shop in Sacramento can prevent a civil war buff from displaying his painting at the art show at a state fair in Fresno. That is precisely...
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