Judges and Judiciary
Jan. 6, 2015
A personal letter
In 2015, our New Year's resolution is to do what we must to acknowledge that we are good writers only if we acknowledge that we are re-writers.
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice
2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
UNDER SUBMISSION
In the past couple of weeks I have received a plethora of deeply personal, generic "holiday letters." The adjective "holiday" is a euphemism for "Christmas" to avoid offending Jews, Muslims, atheists, Druids, and other nonsubscribers. Oh dear, I fear the preceding sentence may offend my many Christian friends. To you, please substitute the word "substitute" for the word "euphemism." And if that precedi...
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