"The court's oldest member, 84-year-old Justice Blackmun is the
only justice who double-checks by hand every citation and quotation in his
opinions. In 1990, his clerks pointed out that a new computer program
could do the drudge work automatically. He just 'shook his head and
walked away,' says a former clerk who was there."
Paul M. Barrett, If There Is Blood In an Opinion, We Know Who Wrote It --
The Supreme Court Justices (And Their Clerks) Stamp Prose with Quirky
Flair, Wall St. J., Oct. 4, 1993, at A1, A14.
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