Kings Park Manor, Inc., for instance, the Second Circuit sitting en banc refused to hold a landlord liable for its tenants' racial harassment of fellow tenants, partly because of concern that such responsibility would pressure landlords to exercise undue power over tenants: [Under the alternative proposed by Francis,] prospective and current renters would confront more restrictive leases rife with in terrorem clauses, intensified tenant screening procedures, and… [read post]

” In Canada, Southin J. in the British Columbia Supreme Court noted in 1986 that “the proclamation of the Charter [of Rights and Freedoms] by a process worthy of an alchemist, has transformed judges from lawyers into philosopher kings…”[21] In light of these views, one might expect that the explicit mention of philosophers would occur most frequently in the context of constitutional law. [read post]

See Fox v. [read post]