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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link="#1E66AE" vlink="#1E66AE"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>One proposition seems strange. The report appears to say, <i>“ Padilla and Lebron acknowledge that at the time Yoo served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General at OLC, there did not exist a “single judicial opinion,” holding that a United States citizen held in military detention as an enemy combatant possessed rights against the kind of treatment to which Padilla was subjected.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If I have understood the common law correctly – and what layman can understand such an esoteric mystery? – the Law remains the same, Judges discover it, they don’t change it.<br>Doesn’t that mean that, if no Judge will decide in the absence of <i>“a single judicial opinion”</i> the whole dynamic of the common law is lost? Doesn’t that reduce the Judge to a powerless functionary, unable to pronounce on or develop the law?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>With kind regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:#1F497D'>Geoffrey Hartwell<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Professor Geoffrey M Beresford Hartwell <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> TILDS@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TILDS@yahoogroups.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Slomanson<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 08, 2012 2:13 AM<br><b>To:</b> TILDS@yahoogroups.com; intlawprofessors@mailman.anu.edu.au; kosovokids@chicagokent.kentlaw.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [TILDS] U.S. PRESIDENT'S LAWYER TOTURE MEMO CASE [1 Attachment]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div id=ygrp-mlmsg><div id=ygrp-msg><div id=ygrp-text><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>[<a href="#TopText"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Attachment(s)</span></a> from William Slomanson included below]</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p><p>I've uploaded the attached edited version to my Intl Law Course Web Page, which I'll use in my fall class. I welcome suggested additions/deletions.... At only 7 pages long, I anticipate some reaction to succinctness; however, I already cover too much & try to keep each online case a manageable length. Done in Word, so you can edit, as well.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:white'>__._,_.___<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a name=TopText><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#628C2A'>Attachment(s) from William Slomanson</span></b><o:p></o:p></a></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:0cm' id=attach-count><b><span style='color:#628C2A'>1 of 1 File(s) </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='margin-top:1.5pt;margin-bottom:1.5pt;float:left'><div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://l.yimg.com/kq/static/images/yg/img/doc/doc16x16.gif"><a href="http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/22275810/1271398758/name/9%2E7_Padilla%2Edocx" title="9.7_Padilla.docx"><span style='text-decoration:none'>9.7_Padilla.docx</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div style='margin-bottom:7.5pt' id=ygrp-actbar><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#666666'><a href="mailto:bills@tjsl.edu?subject=Re%3A%20U%2ES%2E%20PRESIDENT%27S%20LAWYER%20TOTURE%20MEMO%20CASE">Reply to <b>sender</b></a> | <a href="mailto:TILDS@yahoogroups.com?subject=Re%3A%20U%2ES%2E%20PRESIDENT%27S%20LAWYER%20TOTURE%20MEMO%20CASE">Reply to <b>group</b></a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TILDS/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJxb2Zpbzc0BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyMjc1ODEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTM1NARtc2dJZAMyMDUxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3JwbHkEc3RpbWUDMTMzNjQzOTYyMw--?act=reply&messageNum=2051">Reply <b>via web post</b></a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TILDS/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbnFjZzkyBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyMjc1ODEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTM1NARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0aW1lAzEzMzY0Mzk2MjM-"><b>Start a New Topic</b></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#666666'><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TILDS/message/2051;_ylc=X3oDMTM1dWNuZXRiBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyMjc1ODEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTM1NARtc2dJZAMyMDUxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3Z0cGMEc3RpbWUDMTMzNjQzOTYyMwR0cGNJZAMyMDUx">Messages in this topic</a> (<b>1</b>) <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:7.5pt' id=ygrp-vital><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E0ECEE'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333;text-transform:uppercase'>Recent Activity:</span></b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E0ECEE'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1E66AE'><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TILDS;_ylc=X3oDMTJmNHU3cDJmBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyMjc1ODEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTM1NARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzEzMzY0Mzk2MjM-"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Visit Your Group</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style='margin-top:3.75pt' id=ft><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJldnRjMjR1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyMjc1ODEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTM1NARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTMzNjQzOTYyMw--"><span style='color:blue;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=137 height=15 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/yg/logo/us.gif" alt="Yahoo! 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