To: c.hinton who wrote (7191 ) 6/24/2007 6:06:10 PM From: TimF Respond to The author would like people to be held responsible. That's a commendable goal. OTOH just because the goal is commendable does not mean that the court should always act to further it. The courts job is to interpret the law, not try to create their vision of the ideal situation. Lower courts are normally supposed to follow the precedents of higher courts. A quick scan of the precedent seems to indicate that the 5th circuit properly followed the Supreme Court's precedent. The author of the article doesn't really make any attempt to argue otherwise other than the simple statement that the facts where different. Instead the author spends his words on statements that are irrelevant to the law, or the justice of the situation such as a paragraph about how much wall street insiders can make.
