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Lane v. Cotton

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  • You did an excellent job understanding one aspect of the contemporary significance of Lane v. Cotton, which I meant to be resolved in a throw-away paragraph, so far as your own research into the original elements of the case went. But, because you read somewhat narrowly the context of the case and in that scope understood the law it made, or that Holt tried to make, your grasp of its contemporary significance largely concerned infrastructure development. Because you went no further into the history than Holdsworth, which is sometimes a good starting point but never a good stopping point, the relevance of Charles II's giving the Post Office franchise to his brother, the Duke of York, later James II, whose efforts to create a system of political surveillance through opening the post--which is the actual hidden subject of the case--escaped your attention. Seen as a case about liability for spying on communications through public/private allocation of responsibility, there were other recent analogies that might have been drawn.

  • In short, while you didn't get it all, you undertook substantial effort and learned plenty. That deserves very positive evaluation. Thank you.
 
 
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