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United States News Title: "Rock & Roll Judges" You can read the whole article here, with more details, citations, and analysis, but here is some of the data: Here is a list of the top specific rock songs or lyrics cited by state and federal judges in court opinions: ... Here are the rock artists who are spontaneously mentioned most often in court opinions without the references being to a particular song: Who Are These Judges? If there is a single judge who stands out in rock references, it is Federal Magistrate Jonathan Goodman of the Southern District of Florida. Since 2010, Goodman dropped no fewer than 56 references to rock music or artist over the course of 33 judicial opinions. These opinions include references such subjects as Bob Dylan (9 references), the Beatles (6), and the Rolling Stones (3). Goodman has also cited the Allman Brothers, Bo Diddley, Bruce Springsteen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Guns N Roses, Johnny Cash, the Kinks, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Madonna, Neil Young, REM, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Petty, U2, and the Yardbirds. Goodman is a magistrate who is appointed by the courts in Florida, his likely political affiliation is not easy to establish. However, most federal judges (other than tax, bankruptcy and military judges) can easily be identified politically by the party of the President who appoints them. Of the judges who serve on one of the various U.S. Courts of Appeal, a couple stand out: From these charts, one case see there are 38 Circuit Court and 76 District Court opinions where the judge's political affiliation is discernable. In the Circuit Courts, there are more Republican-authored opinions (21) than Democrat-authored (17). In the District Courts, the Democrat-authored opinions (50) outnumber the Republican-authored ones (26). This finding demonstrates that, though Democrat-appointed federal judges overall are more likely to drop a rock reference into their opinions, it is not as if Republican judges eschew this practice. State Court Judges Among state judges, the one who stands out is Philip S. Straniere in Richmond County, New York. Since 2004, he has written 12 opinions which refer to a number of rock artists: Bob Dylan (six opinions) Elton John, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Rolling Stones, and Simon and Garfunkel. Judge Straniere's rock references include truly strange paragraph, which he wrote in a credit card collection case. This is another example of a presumed Grateful Dead entity Who has joined the Band of business Zombies, some of whom Ten Years After ceasing to exist are still executing documents and expecting the court to accept them with Blind Faith. The Association of these entities with accounts which are not the Cream of consumer credit transactions, has, after a lot of Blood, Sweat and Tears on the part of the court personnel examining the Grassroots of each file, disclosed many Kinks in getting to the Heart of the current process. Even a Strawberry Alarm Clock would not be enough to alert the clerks, who Love their work, to the Grand Funk being created by these Rascals and give Creedance to some of these filings. The Doors to potential abuse opened by these filings require the court to examine each application like Big Brother rather than accept them like some benevolent Queen. It's A Beautiful Day when these filings may be accepted without question. Perhaps that is what happens in places like Buffalo Springfield or Chicago. Other noteworthy state judges include: Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and co-founder of the Volokh Conspiracy blog, now hosted at Reason.
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