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To: Lane3 who wrote (21287)	6/16/2006 10:18:23 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 541799

They're relevant to the Court deciding to hear the case. No, really, you can't use them. At least lawyers, litigants and judges can't. The reason should be intuitively obvious. It's to keep people from digging into the record to find a pet "real reason" the justices ruled some way. The SCOTUS rarely rules narrowly on a narrow set of facts. They don't have the time, unless the case is of paramount importance, see, e.g., Bush v. Gore. They make one-size-fits-all rulings, and the way around them is to parse the words in the opinion.

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