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Alcee Hastings: “The problem we have is making law by anecdote. As I have listened to the various speakers talk about rather extreme…”

On the recordMarch 2, 1995
The problem we have is making law by anecdote. As I have listened to the various speakers talk about rather extreme situations, each of those situations may very well have facts that are not put before us at a given time. For example, if there is a landfill that a person uses their property on, it may very well result in a different kind of result.
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Alcee Hastings
Florida

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Discussing the challenges of creating laws based on anecdotal evidence.

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