Constitutional Law
Oct. 17, 2003
Credit Act Changes Don't Add Up
Forum Column - By Douglas W. Kmiec - Congress is considering changes to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In these difficult economic times when credit is the lifeblood of small business and family, this is good. Yet, more than three-quarters of a century ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us that, "a strong public desire to improve the public condition is not enough to warrant achieving the desire by a shorter cut than the constitutional way of paying for the change."
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