-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.LNX.3.95.971119103908.23634C-100000@westsec.denver.ssds.com>, on 11/19/97 at 10:55 AM, Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com> said:
Pretty screwy if you ask me, but the court system doesn't have to make sense. Since court decisions seem based on case law and not any semblance of morality(?) or constitutional contractual obligation judges seem free to find the exact bit of case law that defends their decisions.
Reminds me of an old Sci-Fi story where in the future all the courtrooms were computerized. The two opposing lawers would submit disks containing case law to the computer. One lawer would present one case and the opposing lawer would present a case that over ruled it. This would go back and forth until one of the lawers presented a case that could not be over ruled by the other. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNHPC849Co1n+aLhhAQFeCgP6AhOyIQAaKHhA8k06Hij5IB831wX4Krjs 55O1khAB4oWaAObHlOhY10Og0qVVMfNfAVUWTlTElYJYaxE1svPV1QVu8fJ31dm4 uPnMms6JTSOBzEAES4vVC/YQBoQ4cMnE0iTkaod6C49EHUEMrfy2dhrBiRMqy9hZ ftCwFfrHfKw= =n69n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----