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Re:Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015) by indymike on Saturday December 10, 2022 @03:42PM (#33936595)
Has nothing to do with judges, and the fact the US adopted English common law and evolved it's judiciary from there.
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Re:Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015) by zopa on Saturday December 10, 2022 @04:02PM (#33936763)
To be a little pedantic, individual states maintained systems based on English common law, rather than the US as a whole adopting it. There’s famously no such thing as Federal common law.

This matters in Louisiana, which has a civil and not a common law system, dating from the French period.

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Re:Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015) by Retric on Saturday December 10, 2022 @03:55PM (#33936697)
In theory sure, in practice the legal system is run by people who somewhat regularly make technically incorrect decisions.
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