Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...throughout her career, Marshall has shown that she has a remarkable ability to do what judges are supposed to do--uphold the law. Her record shows an unrivaled depth and breadth of experience, legal and otherwise. In a July opinion, she upheld a law refusing health benefits to domestic partners while also pointing out that the law on the books may be outdated; she wrote, "A 'family' may no longer be constituted simply of a wage-earning father, his dependent wife and the couple's children...
When asked why some might disagree with what seems like a logical argument, Linn responds by saying it's matter of opinion...
Marshall wrote the court's majority opinion in a separate case that made it more difficult for plaintiffs to receive large amounts of money in punitive damages. As a result of the ruling, the damages awarded in Harvard's case were...
...likely than not to have been a victim of sexual violence both at home and on the street, but that's just from statistics, not from any knowledge of her specific situation. Because I really don't know anything about this woman, I would never think to write an opinion piece condemning her as lazy, conniving, undeserving, and fat, because to do so would be an embarrassing display of my ignorance and mean-spiritedness. It's too bad that George Hicks does not have the same self-censoring mechanism...
...when she started graduate studies at Bryn Mawr, a women's college outside Philadelphia, her opinion changed...