Turns out, as many suspected, there were
actual legal reasons for the new weird disclaimer at the end of Masters Of Sex this season, and I wasn't the only one dumbfounded by the messy wrangle of Masters and Johnson's kids in last week's premiere.
But
the actual legal reasoning underlying the Court's invalidation of the law makes possible another path.
Not exact matches
That's the kind of
reasoning that used to get you into trouble in
legal method courses during the first year of law school for failing to distinguish between the
actual holding of a case and the obiter dicta of the judges.
The opinion was of a kind we are used to seeing by now from Justice Kennedy: long on windy rhetoric about «dignity» and ad hominem attacks on the basic human decency of the law's defenders, and short on
actual coherent
legal reasoning from recognizable constitutional principles.
No one with the least comprehension of
legal reasoning who has followed the
actual jurisprudential arguments in the relevant cases could have written such lines.
Hence, one of the
reasons for the requirement of an impairment of an
actual legal right, e.g., under a contract, to have standing.
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Actual results could differ materially for a variety of
reasons, including, in addition to the factors discussed above, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of
legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, seasonality, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains and develops commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity.
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The
reason my site is so popular with the intellectual segment of our population that has some background in the law is that, unlike every other site that has since popped up, we use
actual legal principles to create results, and we have that precedent bank that ensures each result is the same time after time.
In my view there are a few
reasons for this, but one major contributor is that writing university assignments and Practical
Legal Training assignments are designed for a completely different purpose and with different factors in mind than any form of actual legal writing in prac
Legal Training assignments are designed for a completely different purpose and with different factors in mind than any form of
actual legal writing in prac
legal writing in practice.
Judges, like anyone else, are often unaware of subtle influences on why they decide as they do; speaking broadly,
legal realism suggests that their supposedly rational basis for making a decision may not be the
actual basis for doing so, and in fact may be flatly at odds with that «real»
reason.7
First, the abstract setting of the classroom teaches
legal reasoning by focusing exclusively on cases without exposure to
actual clients, which, leads to the second missing component, instruction without «ethical substance.»
But, while the
actual practice of law may become more complex and demanding — thanks to public scrutiny and technological changes — the importance of the
legal profession will only continue to grow for those same
reasons.
In the committee's view, «[r] adical reforms of the criminal and civil
legal aid system, intended to put
legal aid on a more sustainable footing, can only be planned on the basis of a fuller understanding of the
actual reasons for the increase in expenditure in the areas of concern».