SCREEN GRAB of CNN's Epic Dewey-Defeats-Truman FAIL

[JDPriestly]

97. And that passes for journalism in our country?

Here is how I approached reading court decisions back in the day.

When I read a court decision, I read the last paragraph in each section first. I didn't start at the beginning. I read those last paragraphs and if I didn't know what the holding was based on that, I went back to the earlier paragraphs. In fact, although tedious, I knew that I had to read every word of a decision carefully to understand it. Takes time. There are no quick fixes for this.

And when I read a decision for which there were headnotes, I had to be very careful. The headnotes are pretty accurate, but they are mostly a guide to reading the decision. Headnotes do not have the force of law.