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The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-APR-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans.(Book Review)

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Howard Ball New York University Press www.nyupress.nyu.edu 262 pp., $35

The questioning of judicial wisdom, political neutrality, and ideological objectiveness is a mainstay of the American law school curriculum. Using the tortuous Socratic method, law professors press their students to uncover the hidden meaning of a court's decision, at times suggesting that a judge's personal views took priority over legal precedent.

Surmising that personal values alone guided a judicial outcome is one thing; proving it is quite another. In his latest book, Professor Howard Ball valiantly attempts to marshal proof that the Supreme Court decisions most significantly affecting the intimate lives of Americans are best understood through the lens of "the stresses, doubts, frustrations, and personal conflicts" that swirled among the nine individuals privileged to occupy the marble courthouse on First Street....

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