June 16, 2004
HERE'S AN IDEA...:
Pledge case puts chill on parental rights: For many parents without custody, Monday's Supreme Court decision makes it harder to press concerns. (Warren Richey, 6/17/04, CS Monitor)
...stay married.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 16, 2004 6:49 PMIf I understood the facts correctly Newdow and the child's mother were never married.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at June 16, 2004 9:06 PMCourts should not make law when a case can be disposed of by a procedural ruling. This is, quite literally, Judicial Procedure 101: I learned it in a Summer pre-term mini-course at Penn Law thirty years ago. (If I nadn't remembered it fron undergraduate Constitutional Law.) Anyone with the slightest clue as to how the system m is supposed to work is supposed to know this. There's never a law professor around when you want one.
Posted by: Lou Gots at June 17, 2004 10:14 AMThere's never a law professor around when you want one.
Now there's a theory I've never been able to test.
Posted by: David Cohen at June 17, 2004 12:48 PMLou:
The argument that father's are not interested parties in the welfare of their children is at least novel.
Posted by: oj at June 17, 2004 2:10 PM