Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <antti-juh...@kaijanaho.fi> writes: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:08:25AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>> an analogy with the legal system may make things clearer: the press >> does not announce every decision made by every judge in a court of law, >> but it does do so for every decision made by the supreme court, whether >> the case as such is of general interest or not. > I doubt that's true, though (unless one includes specialized press such > as SCOTUSblog in the US). [...] > Not quite. Although the US Supreme Court issues less than a hundred > merits decisions a year, they make a lot more summary decisions (mainly > denial of certiorari - they exercise their discretion not to hear a > case) each year, most of which even the courtwatcher press does not > note. The numbers are similar, I believe, for the Finnish Supreme > Court. Somewhat off-topic, but you're both correct in your own way. :) PBS NewsHour, which is a standard one-hour nightly news program, does indeed announce every substantive decision of the US Supreme Court, but refusal to grant cartiorari isn't considered a substantive decision unless there was some widespread belief that the court would hear the case. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fw8iz76z....@windlord.stanford.edu
