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Leaving The Ballpark, J. Thomas Sullivan Jul 1999

Leaving The Ballpark, J. Thomas Sullivan

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

Justice Stevens’s Sammy Sosa "leaving the ballpark" metaphor in City of Chicago v. Morales is used as a reminder that words may have multiple meanings.


Fuller And Language, Joseph Vining Jan 1999

Fuller And Language, Joseph Vining

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His style made him distinctive. His substance made him distinctive. The two crossed, were genetically related as we now say. Style and substance each drew on and was implied by the other. One point of their crossing was his sense of the nature of human language; what language was and could be, what it was not and could never be. In 1930, early in his work, Fuller took up the problem of language in a series of articles. Toward the end of his time he republished this initial ground-establishing effort as the little book we now have, Legal Fictions, …