Comments on: Acceptable Deviance http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2010/01/acceptable-deviance.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Blawg Review #247 | a public defender http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2010/01/acceptable-deviance.html/comment-page-1#comment-67217 Blawg Review #247 | a public defender Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:10:09 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=23934#comment-67217 [...] science that infests our courts and leads to dubious convictions; and Mark Edwards at Co-Op explores the idea of acceptable deviance – in other words the gap between the law and [...] [...] science that infests our courts and leads to dubious convictions; and Mark Edwards at Co-Op explores the idea of acceptable deviance – in other words the gap between the law and [...]

]]> By: ohwilleke http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2010/01/acceptable-deviance.html/comment-page-1#comment-67048 ohwilleke Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:07:35 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=23934#comment-67048 The workers remind me of investors in non-guaranteed government sponsored enterprises who talk about implied government support of the enterprise (be it Fannie Mae or a Middle Eastern royalty affiliated business). Also, those workers probably lived in company or formerly company owned housing from which they were not being evicted for not paying the rent upon. A parallel example of the living law is the French practice of tolerating the kidnapping of corporate executives as a tactic in labor disputes when the executive is not actually physically harmed. The workers remind me of investors in non-guaranteed government sponsored enterprises who talk about implied government support of the enterprise (be it Fannie Mae or a Middle Eastern royalty affiliated business). Also, those workers probably lived in company or formerly company owned housing from which they were not being evicted for not paying the rent upon.

A parallel example of the living law is the French practice of tolerating the kidnapping of corporate executives as a tactic in labor disputes when the executive is not actually physically harmed.

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