The Volokh Conspiracy

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"We Must Not Sport With Things of So Solemn a Nature"

"as reports of referees, and verdicts of a jury."

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An amusing locution, from Shewell v. Wycoff, 1 U.S. 312 (1788). Special bonus question: What court does this case, published in volume 1 of the U.S. Reports, come from?

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution.