July 10, 2008

WI Supreme Court quote of the day

[I]t is always suspicious to me when an opinion asserts that the meaning [of a statute] is plain and then proceeds to spend a multitude of pages explaining it.
State v. Grunke, 2008 WI 82, ¶45 (Bradley, J., dissenting).*

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2 comments:

  1. William Tyroler1:38 PM, July 10, 2008

    Great dissent. Still-shorter version (¶47): "I don't think a corpse can give consent."

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  2. illusory tenant1:44 PM, July 10, 2008

    Talk about activism, eh? The majority, by judicial fiat as they say, just reinstated the common law crime of necrophilia.

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