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...FIRST MONDAY in October brought some good news to the Village Trustees of Morton Grove, Ill., a suburban community of 24,000 just northwest of Chicago. By refusing to review a lower court ruling appealed by the National Rifle Association, the United States Supreme Court let stand the town's ordinance against the sale and possession of handguns. Unfortunately, this decision is a rather hollow victory for gun control advocates. The fact that the responsibility for enacting gun control laws has fallen to local governments in towns the size of Morton Grove is just a reminder of a failure...
...passage of the gun ordinance in Morton Grove was really an act of desperation by a group of citizens fed up with the increasing number of needless deaths. In 1979 alone, 10,738 people were murdered with handguns in the United States. Two of those victims were from Morton Grove, teenage girls shot to death in a wooded area of the community. When a local businessman announced plans to open a gun shop in the town two years after those killings, the Trustees acted swiftly. The result was the strongest anti-gun law ever passed in the United States...
...Jeff Morton Pensacola...
...That's the dream," says Morton J. Horwitz, Warren Professor of American Legal History. "I think people are going to think about law differently when we are done...
...abolition of the traditional first-year categories. "There are some real problems with throwing them away," says Rakoff. For one, every current lawyer and judge was trained the old way. "It's like bringing people into a religion and teaching them new rituals. Will they be able to relate?"MORTON J. HORWITZ *City College of New York '59, Harvard Ph.D. (Political Science) '64, Harvard Law '67 *Warren Professor of Law, specialist in American Legal History *Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals Justice Spottswood W. Robinson...