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Lawyers are mad folk in general, but their madness crescendos, according to Professor Mellinkoff, in their “consuming passion for precedent .’ Mesmerized by the “ritual phrase’ stare decisis , they delve into that shelf-devouring monster of confusion known as Words and Phrases and come forth with “language that the profession accepts as precedent,’ thus investing such terms as accident and proximate cause with a false precision.
Not surprisingly, Scalia is no big fan of stare decisis : In his dissents, he often calls upon the court to scour away layers of encrusted precedent in order to get at the original meaning of the underlying text.
Most of the current textual infidelity, though, occurs because the doctrine of stare decisis --which dictates adherence to precedent--forces today's judges to live with adventurous Supreme Court decisions from earlier in the century.