On the recordDecember 1, 2009
Isn't what the Supreme Court has done here in the face of contravening that express legislation engaging in, as Professor Burbank says, 'judicial lawmaking'?
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Specter questions the Supreme Court's actions regarding civil rules and legislation.
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