RE: [dvd-discuss] O'Connor quoted at USA Today from Eldred oral argument

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

That's a very laywerly weaseling around the restriction ...

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-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. C. Sessions [mailto:dcs@lumbercartel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 5:41 PM
> To: DVD-Discuss
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] O'Connor quoted at USA Today from 
> Eldred oral
> argument
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 14:55, Richard Hartman wrote:
> 
> > Make _what_ call??  There is no call to
> > be made!  The Constitution expressly 
> > forbids retroactive legislation in 
> > Section 9, paragraph 3: "No bill of 
> > attainder or ex post facto Law
> > shall be passed."
> 
> That just prevents Congress from passing a law making something
> illegal after the fact, e.g. declaring the speed limit to be
> 35 mph after you've already gone by at 45, then socking you
> for speeding.
> 
> It doesn't apply to making future actions (e.g. publication
> of _The_Jungle_Book_ less than 70 years after Kipling's death)
> illegal.
> 
> -- 
> | The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. |
> | Because the slow, feeble old codgers like me cheat.                |
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