[EL] Virginia State Court decision re: legislative definitions of "compactness"

[Mark Rush]

Link to the opinion is here:
http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opnscvwp/1170697.pdf

Troubling aspect, IMHO is the court's enabling the legislature to decide
what is and is not compact without actually having to set forth some sort
of definition.  This is the stuff or arbitrary government.

Full disclosure:  I was on a team that filed an amicus.

Go Red Sox
-- 
Mark Rush

“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist
most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of
modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate
violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting
concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many
projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to
violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It
destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of
our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work
fruitful.”

Thomas Merton.  *Conjectures of  a Guilty Bystander*
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