State Bar & Bar Associations
Aug. 14, 2013
Justice Kennedy: Law is the 'kinship that binds us'
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called on lawyers of the American Bar Association to stand up for civics education, noting that the language of law isn't about legal jargon like "collateral estoppel" but the meaning of freedom.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - "The language of law is the tie, the bond, the kinship that binds us."
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy used those words in an address Saturday evening to call lawyers of the American Bar Association to stand up for the cause of civics education in America.
The language of law isn't about knowing legal jargon like "collateral estoppel," he sai...
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