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Article: Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge.
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- Constitutional Commentary
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Constitutional Commentary, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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... ... presentation of the American Jewish Committee's coveted 1998 Learned Hand National Award to Denver's own Jim Lyons of Rothberger ... Martin. CAPTION: Henry Strauss and Liz Kelly attend Learned Hand Dinner. By Michael Martin. CAPTION: Affable Rabbi ...
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