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...courts?? history of overturning individual litigation is probably related to the tenuous legal arguments on which they rest. Bullock’s and other plaintiffs’ arguments require evidence that simply is not available. They argue they were not fully aware of the risks of smoking due to tobacco companies’ deceptive tactics, which included misleading advertising and understatement of health risks. Proving such an argument requires clairvoyant insight into decisions made decades ago. The plaintiff’s word should not be enough, especially when so much money is at stake...
...terms of searching for the truth. In the real world, such specialized boards have been woeful failures because they perceive themselves more as social service agencies than as engines of justice, and civil libertarians have been trying to get them abolished for years. Consider specialized “drug courts?? which see their duty as “cleaning up the streets” rather than finding facts, critically scrutinizing evidence, and doing justice. Ditto for national security courts, which rarely deny a government claim or request. President Bush wants “terrorism” cases sent...
These tribunals—which even Bush administration officials admitted would limit the rights of defendants more than standing military courts??would have the authority to render verdicts, up to and including death with a two-thirds vote of officers present...
...began strenuous efforts to discourage slavery. In the wake of the Revolution, many people—inspired by Enlightenment ideas that taught the fundamental equality of humans—urged the abolition of slavery. Many Americans knew slavery was wrong, but the leading institutions—churches, school and courts??continued to embrace slavery...