Indiana Judges Association: Dealing with different takes on language
A trial judge’s job is often befuddling. We have to differentiate between peoples’ language, their values, even their competing views about what language means.
Judge David J. Dreyer
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Indiana Judges Association:The Thinker 2.0
Have you been thinking lately? Judges and lawyers make a profession of “thinking,” of analyzing, balancing, applying, and just plain old wondering. But do we think like we used to?
Judge David Dreyer: Law is about people, emotion and all
My daughter lives in Oregon but she never calls. But the other night she did text. Of course I did not find it until later, and it simply reported in plain terms the largest historical event of her young adult life. No glee, no joy, just a simple statement about what happened in Pakistan. But I have not been able to stop thinking what made it so important to contact her parents.
Indiana Judges Association: Incivility Anonymous – help is available
Judge David Dreyer discusses being an uncivil-holic.
Indiana Judges Association: Protect ‘We (All) the People’
Judge David Dreyer writes about judges doing their jobs on controversial topics.
Legalese for ‘have an orange’
Bryan Garner, editor of Black’s Law Dictionary, head of LawProse Inc., and plain English expert, uses the following passage in “The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing,” (1992), to show efforts to simplify legal writing existed as far back as 1837 when the author satirizes how a lawyer would write, “have an orange”: “Timothy Walker (1802-1856). […]
Indiana Judges Association: Plain English? Revisions plain common sense
“The Indiana Model Civil Jury Instructions, written in plain English, are now available. … The new instructions
were prepared by the Civil Instructions Committee of the Indiana Judges Association.”
Indiana Judges Association: Choose between the good and the good
Judge David J. Dreyer urges the governor to appoint a Notre Dame Law School alum.