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We would have strongly preferred to avoid litigation in connection with this matter, but given the request by the four Senate committee and subcommittee chairmen, our rights to this information and the important principles and precedents involved, GAO will take the steps necessary to file suit in United States District Court in order to obtain, from the Chair of the NEPDG, the information outlined in our August 17, 2001, report.
' " Lord Rees-Mogg said that "[t]he precedents under American law are that Microsoft will not be allowed to expand, or even retain, its present degree of monopoly," and he suggests that Gates take a leaf out of the book of John D. Rockefeller who, in his later years, consulted a public-relations firm and "took to giving out dimes to children in the street in order to soften his image as a hard-hearted businessman."
The rule cites precedents under which the "defendants' right to be tried by impartial jury included [the] right to examination designed to ascertain possible prejudices of prospective jurors."
The Court agrees with all this, yet applies a novel and unsupportable interpretation of our public-forum precedents to declare §504(a)(16) facially unconstitutional.
For the benefit of the uninitiated let me say that lawyers, deluded or not, overwhelmingly believe that with the exception of constitutions and of statutes enacted by legislatures (and rules under them), precedent is what the law is made of in the United States; that the law existed before written language in the tradition of “customs that runneth not to the contrary’ and continues to thrive in the printed decisions; that the statutes themselves remain unsettled until rounded out by precedent; that precedents may become so venerable as to become platitudes but may also be as fresh as the undried ink on today's appellate court decision; and that when a lawyer searches for as recent a decision as he can find, in a jurisdiction as near as possible, on facts as close to his client's case as possible, never overruled or modified, and pronouncing the law as clearly as possible, he is doing what he should be doing and might well be guilty of malpractice for failing to do so.
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