“Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.”
Aesop (-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
“Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheep's clothing: the potential of the asserted principle to effect important change in the equilibrium of power is not immediately evident, and must be discerned by a careful and perceptive analysis. But this wolf comes as a wolf.”
Morrison v. Olsen, 487 U.S. 654, 699 (1988) (dissenting).
1980s
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