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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Alpha Mare on October 12, 2009, 10:23:49 AM
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If, in the future, a historian seeks the first proof positive that President Obama was intent on seeding the lower federal courts with radicals, the answer may well be that Butler did it.
Mr. Butler is such a judicial activist that Wisconsin voters rejected his state high court candidacy both times they had a chance to weigh in.
Mr. Butler wrote the opinion in Thomas v. Mallet, which made lead-paint manufacturers liable for supposed harm to a plaintiff even though the plaintiff could not show that particular manufacturers had produced the paint that purportedly made him sick in houses built as early as 1900. In dissent, Justice Jon P. Wilcox wrote: "The end result ... is that the defendants, lead paint manufacturers, can be held liable for a product they may or may not have produced, which may or may not have caused the plaintiffs' injuries, based on conduct that may have occurred 100 years ago when some of the defendants were not even part of the relevant market."
So often did Mr. Butler find reasons to favor criminal defendants over law enforcement that he earned, and publicly welcomed, the nickname "Loophole Louie." Finally, in State v. Fisher, the Butler court majority somehow interpreted a voter-approved constitutional amendment clearly written to expand gun-carrying rights as instead limiting gun-carrying rights.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/12/another-radical-judge/#