Highest New York's Court's Briefs Generally Not Improving Last 40 Years

The language in the briefs to the New York Court of Appeals-- that state's highest court-- have gotten less and less plain between 1969 and 2008, except for less use of the passive voice, according to an article pending for publication in the Suffolk University Law Review. Bryan A. Garner and I, among many others, have much work to do in this connection.