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Mar. 1, 2011
What Were They Thinking?
The ten most outlandish California Supreme Court opinions, from the 1850s to 2000.
When challenged by the editors of California Lawyer to compile a list of the "worst" judicial opinions, the first thing I did was to check around the blogosphere to see what had already been singled out. For the U.S. Supreme Court, the worst-opinion lists I found proved remarkably consistent, with Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Korematsu v. United States, and Bush v. Gore alm...
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