150 F. Supp. 2d 249 - Dow v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis

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4 district · 1 state decisions

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1. “The roles of twenty-first century legal professionals in the Bar, Bench, and Academies in the United States owe much to James Madison’s seminal thinking expressed publicly and privately during debates over the structure of the new form of related state and national' governments to be established under a constitution drafted in May 1787 to cure deficiencies in the Articles of Confederation (1777). See generally John P. Kaminski, Ph.D, Director, and Richard Leffler, Ph.D., Co-Director, The Center for the Study of the American Constitution, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Origins of the Three Branches of Government, Federal Judicial Center Traveling Seminar 3-9 (2001) (Wisconsin Study). Professionalism of persons educated in law, as it came to be recognized in the United States in the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century, did not exist in the time of the Founders. Its development owed much to the Founders’ ideas about the roles of impartial judges, and advocates who would appear before them.... Have changes occurred that make us less likely now to express our sense of professionalism and less likely to attribute any credit to our eighteenth-century predecessors? I believe so, and I believe the issues presented in the case before me illustrate a need for reflection about ways in which reexamination of the thoughtful eighteenth century debates may illumine problems we confront now. The extent to which we, in the twenty-first century, are ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Change the Climate, Inc. v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

2. “The Limited Liability Partnership was set up to allow limited Lability partners to protect non-partnership assets against liability for the wrongs of the partnership under certain conditions ... In a Limited Liability Partnership, limited Lability partners cannot be vicariously liable for the torts of the partnership. The liability of each depends on proof of some wrongful act or omission by that individual partner. This statute does not mean that partners in a Limited Liability Partnership can never be liable in a discrimination suit. It means that the plaintiff must demonstrate that the individual partner was negligent or committed some other kind of wrongful act, error, or omission that produced discrimination against the plaintiff.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Mahoney Hawkes, LLP