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This story has to do with the young lawyer
who was arguing a case before the Supreme
Court of Missouri. Throughout his whole oral
argument, he kept saying, "Well, according
to Justice Glockenheimer..."
Finally the Chief Justice leaned over and said,
Young man, just who is Justice Glockenheimer?
I've never even heard of him."
The young man said, "He's just the best damn
Justice of the Peace in the whole city of St. Louis."
And the Supreme Court Justice said, "I don't
care... this Court doesn't care what some Justice
of the Peace in St. Louis says about the law."
The young man smiled and said, "That's exactly
what Justice Glockenheimer said about this court,
Your Honor."
Again, the analogy is somewhat direct because
too often the Supreme Court either of the
state or even of the United States makes great
pronouncements on what the law is, or what
the law ought to be and yet frequently at lower
levels, that gets translated quite differently,
and sometimes one wonders if the people down
in the trenches really care what the broader
and grander conception of the law is all about.
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