It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

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I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

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I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

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