Supreme Court Quotations

[stoke001]

I know it's from the 80's, but what about:  "This wolf comes as a
wolf."  (Scalia, Morrison v. Olson, 1988).

Michael Stokes Paulsen
University of Minnesota Law School


Date sent:              Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:32:17 -0700
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> "The Court has mistaken a Kulturkampf for a fit of
> spite."  Scalia dissenting in Romer v. Evans, 116 S.Ct
> at 1629
>
> Justice Thomas concurring opinion in Adarand,115
> S.Ct.2097, at____, denying that there is "a racial
> paternalism exception [meaning affirmative action
> preferences] to the principle of equal protection." He
> continued: "[T]here can be no doubt that racial
> paternalism and its unintended consequences can be as
> poisonous and pernicious as any other form of
> discrimination."
>
> Scalia concurring in Adarand: "In the eyes of
> government, we are just one race here. It is
> American."
>
> Hope these help.
>
> Rick Duncan
> Welpton Professor of Law
> University of Nebraska
> College of Law
> Lincoln, NE 68583-0902
> --- "Spillenger, Clyde" <SPILLENG at MAIL.LAW.UCLA.EDU>
> wrote:
> > "The Imperial Judiciary lives."  Justice Scalia,
> > dissenting in Casey (1992).
> >
> > Clyde Spillenger
> > UCLA School of Law
> > (310) 825-7470
> > spilleng at mail.law.ucla.edu
> > Odd word errors may be caused by speech
> > misrecognition or advancing
> > senility.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Fred Shapiro [SMTP:fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU]
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 8:47 AM
> > > To:   CONLAWPROF at listserv.ucla.edu
> > > Subject:      Supreme Court Quotations
> > >
> > > I previously appealed to this list for
> > contributions of law-related
> > > quotations for the second edition of my book, The
> > Oxford Dictionary of
> > > American Legal Quotations.  The response was
> > modest.  Let me try again
> > > with a more focused query:  I would welcome
> > contributions of famous or
> > > eloquent or historically important quotations from
> > U.S. Supreme Court
> > > opinions of the 1990s.  Contributors of more than
> > one quotation that
> > > appears in the published second edition will be
> > acknowledged in the book's
> > > preface.
> > >
> > > Fred R. Shapiro
> > Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
> > > Associate Librarian for Public Services     TRIAL
> > AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
> > >   and Lecturer in Legal Research
> > ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
> > > Yale Law School                             Oxford
> > University Press, 1998
> > > e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               ISBN
> > 0-19-509547-2
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 21:12:43 -0800
> > > From: Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> > > Reply-To: lawcourts-l at usc.edu
> > > To: The Law and Courts Discussion List
> > <lawcourts-l at usc.edu>
> > > Subject: Quotations Appeal
> > >
> > > I am beginning to work on the second edition of
> > the Oxford Dictionary of
> > > American Legal Quotations (Oxford University
> > Press).  This is generally
> > > considered to be the most authoritative and most
> > comprehensive legal
> > > quotation book.
> > >
> > > Now and for the next couple of years, I would
> > welcome contributions of
> > > quotations that are not already included in the
> > first edition of the
> > > ODALQ.  Quotations from the 1980s, 1990s, and
> > 2000's are particularly
> > > valuable, but older quotations not in the first
> > edition are also
> > > desirable.  I would prefer quotations with precise
> > sources, but even
> > > unattributed quotes are useful.  Contributors of
> > more than one quotation
> > > included in the published second edition will be
> > acknowledged in the
> > > Preface.
> > >
> > > Please e-mail contributions to me at
> > fred.shapiro at yale.edu.
> > >
> > >
> > > Fred R. Shapiro
> > Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
> > > Associate Librarian for Public Services     TRIAL
> > AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
> > >   and Lecturer in Legal Research
> > ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
> > > Yale Law School                             Oxford
> > University Press, 1998
> > > e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               ISBN
> > 0-19-509547-2
> >
>
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