THE LONG FORGOTTEN OBLIGATION TO RESIST THE STATE ON BEHALF OF OTHERS
by Roger Roots I was recently doing research in a law library when I stumbled upon an obscure court opinion from 1890, Roberts v. Stuyvesant Safe-Deposit Co., 123 N.Y. 57. (N.Y. Court of Appeals 1890). The opinion gave me pause as I reflected on just how much the principles of American law have been altered…