When the Supreme Court announced its decision Wednesday on whether a fisherman should be charged under Wall Street regulatory laws, Justice Elena Kagan decided to include an unusual judicial argument: Dr. Seuss.
In 2007 in Florida,
law enforcement officials confronted fisherman John Yates, saying he had caught several
red groupers that were too small. Mr. Yates then tossed the fish overboard.
But he was charged under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which sought to punish the
destruction of physical evidence in wake of the Enron scandal where accountants
shredded thousands of documents.
In a 5-4 decision
announced Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the law was meant
to apply only to records or information documents. But in her dissent,
Justice Kagan argued that fish should be
included in the “tangible object” category of evidence the law describes…..To
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My Take - If there was any doubt a 28th amendment outlining term limits for the federal judiciary is needed....I would think this helps to define that need.
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