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Kber

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14. Interesting

Reply to Jim Lane (Reply #9)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 12:13 PM

Nov 2013

So a justice who supported the law, but felt his colleagues would invalidate it if it were given a hearing, might be inclined to vote to not hear the case in order to keep the effect local.

I hadn't thought through that nuance.

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