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Thursday, July 07, 2011
Courts - "The Supreme Court closes the door to justice"
From the July 6th LA Times, an opinion piece on the SCOTUS by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Irvine School of Law, that begins:
Has the Supreme Court lost faith in the American court system? That is a strange question to ask about the justices who sit at the top of the country's judicial hierarchy. But in case after case in the just-completed term, the court, usually in 5-4 decisions with the conservatives in the majority, denied access to the courts. Consider just a few of the examples ...
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 7, 2011 09:23 AM
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