Redskins Win In Appeals Court

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I just read the decision and for those in the know, this is the David Sentelle D.C. Federal Appeals Court. There's nothing in it but a lot of kick the can down the road legaleze. The case was filed in 1992. The original court threw it out. The appeals court disagreed and told them to try again and they did. Now the appeals court approves of their decision. But the decision has nothing whatever to do with the moral acceptability of the word "Redskins". It's all about obscure questions of who has standing, laches, the attitude of Ed Williams in 1967. It's all bullshit, in other words. The court has no interest in chiming in about wether the word "Redskins" has any value at all. In fact, the whole opinion seems to me an elaborate attempt to avoid the very same. If I were to sum it up, I would do it this way: "The word Redskins may very well be offensive but that's not the Goddam business of this Court. Now we'll give you ten pages of nonsense so we don't have say it in such a vulgar way."