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Ask any car salesmen (or real estate agent) - How do customers make decisions? Answer: Emotions. Ask any Chicago School Economist - How do customers make decisions? Answer: . . . read more

Welcome to CLARINET.WOODWINDS.COM. Supeme Court case reviews for ordinary people.

Did you ever wonder why no one (except constitutional lawyers) pays attention to the U.S. Supreme Court? Is it the lack of TV? Is it boring? Is it apathy? Is it hard to understand? Welcome to the website that puts the fun back into the Supreme Court.

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12.03.2008
Who will save the whales? - Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. considers an injunction limiting the Navy's sonar training exercises off the California coast. 11.11.2008
New Commentary - 2008|11|11
11.07.2008
The summaries of the first two cases of the 2008 term have been posted:
Moore v. U.S.: The Eighth Circuit was too busy to read a sentencing transcript.
Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party: The Republicans lost their bid for a Temporary Restraining Order.
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10.07.2008 CLARINET.WOODWINDS.COM must admit defeat. A new term of the Supreme Court is with us, and case reviews for that last term ('07) are woefully incomplete. The new term started today. CLARINET ESQ. has offically given up on 2007, and will shortly begin work on 2008. If 2007 is revisted, it will be to add interesting cases from that term. Also, voting records will be taken off these pages when Clarinet Esq. gets around to it.

The basic problem that all Americans have with the Supreme Court is simple - what the heck are the decisions about? The Supreme Court only takes the most important of the important cases in the land, but ordinary people don't often read Supreme Court decisions. The decisions are dense, often technical, rely on cases decided before we were born (but only occasionally before the Justices were born), and seem irrelevant to most "normal" people anyway.

But Supreme Court decisions have everything that a good story should have: winners, losers, villains, heros, and murderers - lots of murderers. The Supreme Court used to decide hundreds of cases a year - now its a measly 50-60 or so. Ah, but those 60 - there's more than enough to keep a poor lawyer-clarinetist busy.

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