"I Know It When I See It"

[Nelson Lund]

I hope not. Whoever Mr. Novak is, and whatever may have happened within 
Stewart's chambers, I would hope that a Supreme Court Justice who says 
this sort of thing should have to take full responsibility for it.

Nelson Lund
George Mason

Fred Shapiro wrote:

>Someone has written me saying that Potter Stewart's famous line in 
>Jacobellis v. Ohio, "I know it when I see it," was supplied to him by his 
>clerk, Alan Novak, Yale Law School Class of 1963.  Can anyone point me to 
>any information corroborating this assertion?
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
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