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thank you, michael and judge easterbrook for your hospitality here. thank you all for your hospitality here. when judge easterbrook first asked me if i would come and speak at this event i thought, how terrific. i love chicago. i love the seventh circuit. it would be my honor. i thought that he would speak about my job as solicitor general and tell you a little bit about what it is like to have the second-best shot in the united states. but in light of recent events, i thought that would not be the right thing to talk about. the only appropriate subject tonight is justice stevens and his extraordinary career. [applause] and really, alllyou need to know about justice stevens is really -- is what he told you about my exchange with him earlier today when i was coming out here and i looked at the program and i saw that the program has "remarks by justice stevens" and "address by elena kagan." i thought that does not make any sense at all. [laughter] so, i said that. i communicated that in his chambers and said it again here. he would have none of it. he j
thank you, michael and judge easterbrook for your hospitality here. thank you all for your hospitality here. when judge easterbrook first asked me if i would come and speak at this event i thought, how terrific. i love chicago. i love the seventh circuit. it would be my honor. i thought that he would speak about my job as solicitor general and tell you a little bit about what it is like to have the second-best shot in the united states. but in light of recent events, i thought that would not be...
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you will notice that not only did it justice stevens announce his resignation, but as judge easterbrook said, justice stevens turned 90 in april. he himself has warned that this is so common that he was born in april 1920. i personally do not believe it. it is not just that he looks so darn good. i said to somebody last year that he was starring in his own private benjamin but since moving -- benjamin buttons movie. he continues to do more work than just about any other justice. this is true. he drafts of his own opinions. he reviews thousands of surreptitious by himself. i hope it will not annoy people on the court to say that i never understood what law clerks do exactly. now i know. he gives them assignments about home runs. [laughter] it is not just justice stevens mind continuing to have all of the quality of a steel trap, but anyone who watches the case at the supreme court, and it could be about the first amendment or about some other law, anybody who watches a case knows that his mind cuts through a glass. the real reason for my skepticism about his age has nothing to do with th
you will notice that not only did it justice stevens announce his resignation, but as judge easterbrook said, justice stevens turned 90 in april. he himself has warned that this is so common that he was born in april 1920. i personally do not believe it. it is not just that he looks so darn good. i said to somebody last year that he was starring in his own private benjamin but since moving -- benjamin buttons movie. he continues to do more work than just about any other justice. this is true....
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. >> i took a class from professor easterbrook. i keep going back to that.o thinking being from the midwest with the ethanol industry. they have to get insurance. i'm not ware that they have a major law put in place that in a plant blew up in the middle of the corn field that they would have the federal government coming in and protecting them with a liability limit. i want to look at it. i know they have to get insurance. i haven't heard that they have the protection of the liability caps. it seems like we're picking one industry over another. are there other industries with the liability caps? >> none that i am ware of to this extent. i'm really an expert in maritime tort law. i think one thing you see here is an accident of time. statutes passed in 1851, 1920, that have not been re-examined and reconsidered except in limited contexts. now is a chance to look at them comprehensively. >> and then the issue of smaller oil and gas producers. we don't have everyone be big. we want smaller once as well. mr. coleman said they couldn't make the liability. i can
. >> i took a class from professor easterbrook. i keep going back to that.o thinking being from the midwest with the ethanol industry. they have to get insurance. i'm not ware that they have a major law put in place that in a plant blew up in the middle of the corn field that they would have the federal government coming in and protecting them with a liability limit. i want to look at it. i know they have to get insurance. i haven't heard that they have the protection of the liability...
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. >> and i took a class from professor easterbrook. i keep going back to that and it seems the an tit cis. it seems being from the midwest and the ethanol industry, they have to have insurance. i am not sure they have some major law in place if a ethanol plant blows up that they would have the federal government coming in and protecting them with a liability limit, i want to look at it. i know they have to get insurance but i haven't heard that they have the protection of these liability caps. so it almost seems like we're picking one industry over another. are there other energy industries that have these liability caps, professor galligan? >> i cannot -- none that i am aware of to this extent. i am an expert in maritime and maritime tort law. what you see here is the accidents of time. a statute passed in 1851. statutes passed in 1920 that have not really been re-examined and reconsidered except in limited context and now a chance to look at them comprehensively. >> now, this issue of small oil and gas producers, we don't want everyo
. >> and i took a class from professor easterbrook. i keep going back to that and it seems the an tit cis. it seems being from the midwest and the ethanol industry, they have to have insurance. i am not sure they have some major law in place if a ethanol plant blows up that they would have the federal government coming in and protecting them with a liability limit, i want to look at it. i know they have to get insurance but i haven't heard that they have the protection of these liability...