[lbo-talk] Supreme courts in and out of the U.S.

[James Leveque]

I've only lived in the UK for a couple years now and I don't really
know that much about it's court system - but why, in the U.S., is
every supreme court decision greeted like Moses coming down the
mountain to read the tablets of law? Or, more to the point, why
doesn't the UK (or elsewhere) react with the sort of awe over the
social ritual of supreme court decisions. I assume that the supreme
courts over here do roughly the same thing (i.e., establish normative
interpretations of law) but I've never experienced any like the
reaction you get in the U.S.

Anybody know about these things?

James