[Eugene Volokh] "Judicial Opinions Serve Many Functions, and One of Those Is Journalistic"

["Our opinions are dispatches from the edge—moments, recounted for posterity, of how Oregon’s laws ... and the lives of its citizens, intersect."]

A nice formulation in a concurring opinion by Oregon Court of Appeals Judge Bronson James, in a case about the Oregon crime of "interfering with a peace officer" (State v. Bledsoe, decided earlier this month).

Via Law http://www.rssmix.com/