Supreme Court Published Opinions

I have to say I find these so interesting. I get breakdowns of all recent Texas Supreme Court published opinions, including summaries of cases that have been accepted for review with attachments to relevant briefing from Osler McCarthy, their staff attorney in charge of this task and of public information.

It isn’t just me, anybody who signs up can receive them, or at least any lawyer, don’t know about the rest of you. These are extremely helpful in my work, keeping up with new law etc., but I have to say my favorite part is like Paul Harvey’s the rest of the story, only it’s Osler McCarthy’s return to yesteryear.

This is the one he sent out about Good Friday, interesting reading.

Hope everyone’s Easter was lovely. Misty

“Texas Supreme Court advisory
Contact: Osler McCarthy, staff attorney/public information

RETURNING NOW TO YESTERYEAR

This name for this day of all days in the Christian calendar
Why the oxymoronic label for this day that Christians, in the English-speaking world at least, call “good” when only prophesy suggested for the gathering on Calvary? More than a few Christian etymologists believe Good Friday is a derivative of God’s Friday, much as goodbye might have evolved from “God be with you.” Others note that good means holy. One site says the earliest known use of “guode Friday” can be traced to 1290. The Catholic Encyclopedia, first published in 1907, considered the origin not clear, citing “God’s Friday” or, in German, Gottes Freitag, and noting the day was referred to as “Long Friday” by the Anglo-Saxons, which apparently is still so in modern Danish. Another site traces “the Holy and Great Friday” to Greek liturgy, “Holy Friday” in Romance languages and Karfreitag – Sorrowful Friday – in German. The BBC quotes an Oxford English Dictionary senior editor who said the adjective traditionally “designates a day on (or sometimes a season in) which religious observance is held.” The Oxford English Dictionary states that “good” in this context refers to “a day or season observed as holy by the church,” hence the greeting “good tide” at Christmas or on Shrove Tuesday. The BBC also says the Wednesday before Easter is also known as “Good Wednesday,” although not widely used these days.”

 

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