The news of the passing of Judge David Schuman is heartbreaking. He was a careful and eloquent legal writer and judge, and his opinions were highly respected by his colleagues. Our legal world is a poorer place without him. Rest In Peace.

In the Spring of 1977, I had the singular good fortune of taking David's intensive T.S. Eliot seminar at Deep Springs. I was his only student. It was not a lark being David's only student and studying Eliot. He expected his class of one always to be prepared and ready to answer questions -- a lot of questions, a river of questions, most incapable of being answered easily, or even at Deep Springs. They were challenges to think, in all settings, and for a lifetime, in order to force oneself to become a better person.
A lifetime later, David, I thank you.

Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih