MacGregor v. Rutberg, No. 06-2829 (7th Cir., Feb. 27, 2007).
"Posner's analysis of the law is of a kind with his other empirical studies. To him, all aspects of life are on a balance sheet.
"He has argued that a higher proportion of black women than white women are fat because the supply of eligible black men is limited, thus black women find the likelihood of profiting from attaining an elegant figure too small to compensate for the costs of dieting.
"The right wing in legal thinking supports the right wing in the economic area. Political and economic argument has been transformed into constitutional argument...."
--Martin Garbus, The Next 25 Years, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007, p. 151
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