Jena Osman, comments on her interest in court transcripts
(from a piece
called "Court Reports" originally published in How2)
"I'm fascinated by Supreme Court transcripts. What's
of particular interest to me is how
so often "justice"
comes down to issues of grammar. For
a while now
I've been receiving summaries (via
email) of Supreme
Court decisions through the Legal
Information Institute
at the Cornell Law School. In the
work below, I've
chosen cases where language rules obviously held the
key to some of the
decision making. I then asserted my own version of the
rule on the summary
itself. I've included an excerpt from the summary
followed by the results of my
procedures."