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[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

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> Neil Gorsuch, dictionaries, and “The Case of the Frozen Trucker.”
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> Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is getting well-deserved shade for favoring employers in legal disputes. As he began his Senate
> confirmation hearings, the Supreme Court, which Gorsuch hopes to join, unanimously overturned his decision siding with a school board
> against an autistic pupil in a special education dispute.<Caution-https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-827_0pm1.pdf> 

I participate in the ADS-L to get away from politics, and appreciate it very much when other members also refrain.

But if you have to bring it here, at least get it right.  The decision in the Endrew case was not "his", it was the decision of Judge Timothy Tymkovich.
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/15-827-opinion-below.pdf
Gorsuch wasn't even on the three-judge panel that decided the case.




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