A Symphony of Wonderful Words

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Thursday, August 04, 2005

Master Kennedy

"Sweeping and comprehensive is the change in legal status effected by this law."- Justice Yoda Kennedy delivering the opinion of the Court in Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620, 625 (1996)

In Romer v. Evans, the Court found that Amendment 2 to the Colorado Constitution, which proscribed legal protection to people who suffered discrimination due to their sexual orientation, violated the Equal Protection Clause. Here, Kennedy's laudable but disastrous attempt at poetry provides first year law students with a perfect example of the sentence structure that will earn them a D in legal writing - or an A at a Star Wars convention.

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