John Grisham reality case--for once the real thing turned out better than the fiction

Also reported as LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3912687

Of course, for Scalia, Alito, Roberts and Thomas, for whom an individual can do no right and a corporation can do no wrong, the decision was one from which to dissent, but even Anthony Kennedy joined Breyer, Bader-Ginsburg, Souter and Stevens this time, and said that bought judges should be not be ruling in cases where one of the parties to a dispute is the one that paid for the deciding judge's place on the bench.

http://www.bloomberg.com/...087&sid=ajEDxeYAKid4

Seeing as how even many on the radical right will end up benefiting from this decision, I wonder what their rationale will be for opposing it (other than the fact that Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and Alito voted against it, which, I realize, is reason enough for most of them).

In the fictional version, John Grisham's "The Appeal," the bought judge was allowed to rule for the corporation that bought his seat on the bench, and did eventually rule in favor of the corporation that put him there. Today, the SCOTUS, amazingly enough, said that it shouldn't happen, and shouldn't have happened.

Interesting

Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia couldn't manage.

:evilgrin:

More ominous, but more appropriate.

You'll know what I am talking about. Ominous, oh yes, and very stinky.