But more typical of the courts' views on homosexuals in the military is a Federal appellate opinion handed down in Chicago four years ago.

Read the appellate opinion (archive.ca9.

The appellate opinion in that case railed against the vague definition of criminally negligent homicide.

Moreover, as the appellate opinion stressed, it should be possible to schedule the proceedings to minimize the intrusion on pressing Presidential duties.

But, as the appellate opinion emphasized, a trial judge sensitive to those demands should be able to schedule proceedings without unduly intruding on pressing White House duties.

Judge Heaney played a particularly personal role in the St. Louis desegregation case, and wrote every appellate opinion in the case after 1980.

Meanwhile, several law schools are collecting appellate opinions and putting them on the Internet.

The curriculum mostly consists of long appellate opinions from which they are supposed to derive legal principles on the needle-in-a-haystack principle.

His appellate opinions contain long expository "asides" when he disagrees with the law as handed down by the Supreme Court.

As at law schools everywhere, the focus is on appellate opinions.