Legal Opinion
Wyatt v. Sawyer
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided January 13, 2004No. CIV.A. 70-T-3195-NPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
More than two decades ago, Professor Owen Fiss wrote about the dilemma facing judges in structural reform eases:
“The judge might be seen as forever straddling two worlds, the world of the ideal and the world of the practical, the world of the public value and the world of subjective preference, the world of the Constitution and the world of politics. He derives his legitimacy from only one, but necessarily finds himself in the other.”
Owen Fiss, The Forms of Justice, 93 Harv.L.Rev. 1, 58 (1979). This tension has often been apparent in this case, Wyatt…
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- Olmstead v. L.C.Supreme Court of the United States · 1999
- Cotton v. HintonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
- Freeman v. PittsSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Piambino v. BaileyCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
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