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Is Chief Justice Roberts Bored?

By Glen Ashman

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Chief Justice Roberts Adds a Touch of Noir to His Dissent
Legal Times

Is Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. already getting bored with traditional opinion-writing? Or, as one mystery writer and former attorney speculates, could he have lost a bet to Justice Antonin Scalia? In an extraordinary dissent from a Supreme Court denial of review issued in a fairly routine drug arrest case, Roberts starts off with two paragraphs that hark back to the best, or worst, of the hard-boiled mystery genre. Just one of the more memorable passages: "The neighborhood? Tough as a three-dollar steak."
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202425273996

Chief Justice's Noir-Tinged Dissent Gets Mixed Reviews
Legal Times

It appears that not all bloggers in the legal community are fans of hard-boiled detectives. Dissenting from the denial of review in a drug case, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. included an introduction that recited the facts of the case in a classic noir style. But some bloggers have criticized Roberts' tone, which they see as dismissive. The defendant's own attorney called the dissent "an interesting read," but objected to an "implication" that a street transaction is necessarily a drug deal.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202425301960

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).