- Tyler Ochoa <tochoa[_at_]law.whittier.edu> wrote:
>
> Third, I agree that the U.S. Supreme Court has said
> that asking
> permission should not be held against you if it is
> denied and you go
> ahead anyway. Nonetheless, courts and juries hate
> it when you do that,
> and they continue to ignore what the Supreme Court
> says. There are a
> lot of times when it is easier to ask forgiveness
> instead of
> permission.
This reminds me of what my Catholic friends used to
call a "typical convert mistake" - you never ask
permission, because the church is in the forgivness
business.
(Only relevant here because it was probably on the
lawn of St. Agnes that this discussion took place.)
Keith
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Received on Thu Sep 26 2002 - 14:03:02 GMT