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The extensive influence of American courts in reshaping the cultural, political, social and religious customs of the American people requires no citation.
Lawrence Waddington
Neutral, JAMS
Email: waddington1@aol.com
Lawrence is a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge and former assistant attorney general for the state of California. He is author of "Disorder in the Court" at Amazon.com. He also edits the 9th Circuit blog, "The 9th Circuit Watch."
The extensive influence of American courts in reshaping the cultural, political, social and religious customs of the American people requires no citation. Court decisions have touched sensitive ideological nerves, inflamed racial backlash and angered religious practitioners. Compounding this public disaffection, legal turmoil has surrounded individual trials. The apparently inconsistent verdicts in the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson trials, both highly controversial, incurred public wrath.