Legal Opinion
Doe v. University of Michigan
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided September 25, 1989No. Civ. 89-71683PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COHN, District Judge.
[Tjaking stock of the legal system’s own limitations, we must realize that judges, being human, will not only make mistakes but will sometimes succumb to the pressures exerted by the government to allow restraints [on speech] that ought not to be allowed. To guard against these possibilities we must give judges as little room to maneuver as possible and, again, extend the boundary of the realm of protected speech into the hinterlands of speech in order to minimize the potential harm from judicial miscalculation and misdeeds.
L. Bollinger, The Tolerant Society 78…
2Cases cited55 opinions
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3Cited by42 opinions
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