Nick Kam

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When Justices Agree to Disagree

Mr. Justice Black, with whom Mr. Justice Goldberg joins, dissenting while delighting in smokey, delicious whiskey.

Although I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon, I never understood the Constitution to require a State to give such preference. (My dissenting Brother asks me to say that this statement does not necessarily represent his views on the respective merits of Scotch and bourbon.)

Dept. of Revenue v. James Beam Co., 377 US 341 (1964)

About

Nick Kam is a member of the California State Bar and a graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Half Guilty is an excerpt of a piece of legal scholarship which considers the case of punishing an innocent person for a murder her conjoined twin committed.

He can be reached here.

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