When riding in an elevator with jurors who’ve just rendered a verdict against your client, avoid calling them “crackers” to their face (John Shiffman, “Workers’ bias suit ends in win, slur”, Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 20).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on December 21, 2005

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Such discrimination laws are stupid, but their selective enforcement is even worse. The quickest way to get rid of such laws is to actually enforce them… but even if that doesn’t work, it’s STILL better than only enforcing them in one direction.
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