  :::::I rather question her reputation. A good lawyer may want more court cases and therefore be very popular among lawyers. A good jurist (which she clearly is not) should want to reduce court cases. For example, if the reformers wanted to video record everything that goes on in all schools, public or private, requiring a court order to look at the video. This would ensure that most abuse would occur away from the premises recorded. This would tend to reduce cases.   :::::There are several thousand dioceses in the world. Suggesting that there is a concerted effort on the part of the entire church by quoting some legislation in which she had an interest, which several dioceses opposed (and maybe other people too) is hardly NPOV. In none of these states do Catholics have a majority of votes. And Catholics can read. If there was an effort on the part of their clergy to stop effective legislation that was unbiased, I think Catholics would have noticed. So would the NY Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek. But, seeped in ignorance, they didn't.  :::::Does the Univesity Press often publish stuff at a loss? Who subsidizes them?  :::::She is not only not unbiased, I don't think she is that great a lawyer/jurist either. She is merely another anti-Catholic bigot IMO. Interested in generating bucks for her side. Period.   