May 22, 2012
Dispatches from the reading room: movies and television
Judges watch TV and films too, and sometimes it shows. By William Domnarski
William Domnarski
Email: domnarski@gmail.com
William Domnarski is a Southland mediator and practitioner. His latest book is "Richard Posner," published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
Strolls through the advance sheets of West's Federal Reporter produce much to notice and talk about, even though the ratio of the noteworthy to the rest is not as high as we might want it to be. Shakespeare's phrase "to speak and purpose not" comes to mind. On one level, judges in their opinions are trying to show their relevance and to locate themselves in genre of the judicial opinion. The opinions, after all, are all that...
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