Article: Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge.

Like countless other students, I got my first serious exposure to the intricacies of American constitutionalism through the pages of Gerald Gunther's Constitutional Law, the leading casebook in the field. At the time, I thought it strange that, amid the unending parade of precedent-setting Supreme Court opinions (they appear in my memory, furiously underlined and maddeningly dense), the book included a First Amendment decision that, besides coming from a lowly federal district court, appeared to set no precedent whatsoever, for superior tribunals immediately rejected its speech-protective reasoning. The decision in question was Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten;3 its author ...

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