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Hand was pretty awesome

Can you imagine if Hand had made it on the court?  He's like the H.L. Mencken of appeals courts.

I am not wholly in love with Holmesy's test and the reason is this.   Once you admit that the matter is one of degree, [you] give to Tomdickandharry, D.J. so much latitude that the jig is at once up.  [Even] the Nine Elder Statesmen have not shown themselves wholly immune from the 'herd instinct.'

        -- From correspondence by Justice Learned Hand

Somehow we don't think he really feels the court to be his elders.  Holmesy.  That's how we're going to start referring to that guy.

Full post as published by TJ's Double Play on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).