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2013 Pepp. L. Rev. Ann. 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/pnelwrwan2013 and id is 1 raw text is: Dicta and the Rule of Law I. IN T R O D U C T IO N ........................................................................................ 1 II. RULE OF LAW FUNDAMENTALS ......................................................... 2 A. Procedural Rule of Law Safeguards...................................... 3 1. Transparent Lawmaking According to Established P ro cedu re ......................................................................... . 3 2. Prospective L aw ............................................................... . 4 3 . C lear L aw ........................................................................ . 5 B . Predictable O utcom es ............................................................. . 6 III. FOLLOWING THE DICTATES OF DICTA................................................ 7 A . D efining D icta ..................................................................... . 7 B . A rticle III Lim itations............................................................. . 8 C . W hen D icta D ictates............................................................. . 10 1. The Ninth Circuit: A Case Study..................................... 10 a. The definition of dicta tested .................................... 10 b. Rule of law implications........................................... 13 2. Unprincipled Conflation................................................. . 15 a. Inadvertent Conflation............................................. . 15 b. Justice Brennan and the art of surreptitious law m aking................................................................ . 16 c. Rule of law implications........................................... 18 IV . C O N CLU SION ..................................................................................... 19 I. INTRODUCTION Just after eleven o'clock in the morning on October 29, 2012-a rainy Monday in D.C.-the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.' The case raised important questions of copyright law, and discussions of statutory interpretation and policy took center stage.2 Justice Elena Kagan, however, wanted to talk about whether a certain passage in a prior case, Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L'anza Research 1. Transcript of Oral Argument, 132 S. Ct. 1905 (2012) (No. 11-697). 2. See Ronald Mann, Argument recap: Justices skeptical ofjpublisher's position in gray-market copyright case, SCOTUSBLOG (Oct. 31, 2012, revised 3:20 PM), http://www.scotusblog.com/?p=154545. 1

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