Judges and Statutes: Essays on Agent Orange
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-1984
Abstract
Judges characteristically ignore or deny the choices they make when statutes surround or underlie a case. The statute based claims of veterans exposed to Agent Orange provide both an opportunity to unearth the questions that now determine outcome and to suggest what those questions should be. Asking the questions proposed, judges would determine the extent to which uncertainty and thus real choice cannot be reduced, evaluate the potential for interaction between court and legislature on the issue, and reach the underlying value choices that are unavoidably theirs and that determine outcome.
Publication Title
Law and Policy
First Page
189
Last Page
202
Recommended Citation
Janet S. Lindgren,
Judges and Statutes: Essays on Agent Orange,
6
Law & Pol'y
189
(1984).
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https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/790
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