Judicial Follies: The first look back

Judicial Follies: The first look back

By a long tradition (and I’ve actually been doing this long enough for it to qualify as a “tradition”), the first December column is the first of two annual “looks backward” at the past year’s legal highlights — or, as is usually the case, low-lights. So, without further ado: • Back in 1975, the renowned CBS newsman Charles Kuralt did one of his “human interest” stories about an Iowa farmer who built a 58-foot yacht . . . in his Dubuque barnyard…