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	Learned Hand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hand is generally considered to be one of the most influential American judges who never served on the U.S. Supreme Court.
		The rule, also sometimes referred to as the "Hand Test," is most notable for its economic approach to a legal rule; an approach that is the foundation of the law and economics school of legal thought.
		Hand's cousin, Augustus Noble Hand, was also a judge and also served on both the N.Y. Southern District and the Second Circuit courts substantially during Learned's tenure at each.
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	Learned Hand -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hand is generally considered to be one of the most influential American judges who never served on the (Click link for more info and facts about U.S. Supreme Court) U.S. Supreme Court.
		Hand's judicial opinions are frequently considered classic formative statements of American (A binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law) contract and ((law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought) tort law.
		The rule, also sometimes referred to as the "Hand Test," is most notable for its economic approach to a legal rule; an approach that is the foundation of the (Click link for more info and facts about law and economics) law and economics school of legal thought.
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	How To Law School: LEARNED HAND
		Hand is probably the most well-known and respected judge never to have sat on the Supreme Court.
		Hand was born in Albany, New York, in 1872, to a mother and father.
		Hand became one of the foremost thinkers in the economic interpretation of law.
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		Hand served on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of NewYork from 1914 to 1924, and on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1924 until 1951.
		Hand's judicial opinions are frequentlyconsidered classic formative statements of American contract and tort law.
		Hand's cousin, Augustus Noble Hand, was also a judge andalso served on both the N.Y. Southern District and the Second Circuit courts substantially during Learned's tenure at each.
	www.therfcc.org /learned-hand-45988.html (283 words)

	Biographer Gunther details the making of an open-minded judge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hand, the judge who has been called "the greatest judge never to sit on the Supreme Court," was known to most acquaintances as a very congenial dinner companion, an "urbane, literate, quite self-assured and serene individual," Gunther said.
		Hand's self-doubt, demonstrated repeatedly in his letters, is also "the key to his renown and performance as a judge," Gunther said he came to realize.
		Hand is still highly admired for his essays and his thousands of clear judicial opinions that followed the law, not ideology.
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	LEARNED HAND
		Hand was a federal judge for more than 50 years, starting in 1909 with the District Court in Manhattan - after an uninspired career in private practice - and continuing in 1924 with his appointment to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
		Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge was more than 20 years in the making, and it benefits from the enormous volume of materials - including unpublished memoranda and letters - at Gunther's disposal.
		Hand consistently rejected this; he found there to be no warrant for a different standard depending on the nature of the right in question.
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	Learned Hand : The Man and the Judge: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hand's most enduring legacy is his advocacy of judicial restraint: repeatedly he sounded the dangers of excessive activism in unelected judges.
		By examining Hand's voluminous correspondence with such acquaintances as Walter Lippmann, Felix Frankfurter, and Herbert Croly (with whom he was a founding contributor to The New Republic), Gunther illuminates Hand's intense involvement with the public issues of his times, such as his enthusiastic support of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive party.
		This portrait of Learned Hand is as rich in detail and as dynamic in thought and scope as was the Judge himself.
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	learned hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Billings Learned Hand (January 27, 1872 - August 14, 1961)—usually called just Learned Hand—was a famed American judge.
		Hand served on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1914 to 1924, and on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1924 until 1951.
		This rule is notable for its economic approach to a legal rule, an approach that is the foundation of the law and economics school of legal thought.
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	Hand, Learned on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was a judge of the U.S. District Court for New York's Southern District (1909-24) and of the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals (1924-51).
		Often called the “tenth justice of the Supreme Court,” and regarded as one of the finest jurists in American history, Hand delivered more than 2,000 opinions, and was noted especially as a defender of free speech.
		Lessons learned from teaching web-based courses: the 7-year itch.
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	Billings Learned Hand Biography / Biography of Billings Learned Hand Biography Biography
		Billings Learned Hand (1872-1961), American jurist, was a senior judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals that had jurisdiction over Vermont, Connecticut, and districts of New York.
		Learned Hand was born in Albany, N.Y., on Jan. 27, 1872.
		In 1924 Hand was named a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Judicial Circuit.
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	phoenixnewtimes.com \| \| Stages \| Learned Hand \| 2001-07-19
		Like a lot of former television stars, Learned's theater credentials have been eclipsed by a single TV role; in this case, her eight-year stint as Olivia Walton, doyenne of the ultimate prime-time family.
		Learned is no TV has-been, slumming in a bus-and-truck revival.
		Learned shifts quickly back to being grateful for her television stardom, which has netted her four Best Actress Emmys, three of them for The Waltons.
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	Books in Review: Briefly Noted
		However, Hand was utterly engaged by the intellectual life of his time, enjoyed a wide and enduring array of friends, and was a revered judge.
		Hand was a critic of judicial activism throughout his career.
		As Gunther observes: "Hand attacked the propriety of the Supreme Court acting as a 'third legislative chamber' and behaving in the manner of lawmaker by second-guessing the merits of legislative choices via constitutional adjudication"-a critique that explicitly included Brown v.
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	Encyclopedia: Learned Hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The calculus of negligence is a term coined by Judge Learned Hand and describes a process for determining whether a legal duty of care has been breached (see negligence).
		Law and economics is the term usually applied to an approach to legal theory that incorporates methods and ideas borrowed from the discipline of economics.
		Augustus Noble Hand (July 26, 1869–October 28, 1954) was an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and later on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Learned-Hand (1397 words)

	Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge Audio Book
		Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge is now available as an audio book.
		Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge was authored by Gerald Gunther and is narrated by Michael Kramer.
		Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
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	Learned Hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Billings Learned Hand (January 27, 1872 – August 14, 1961) — usually called just Learned Hand — was a famed American judge and an avid supporter of free speech.
		The caluculus requires that financial liability should only be imposed for a tort if the burden of preventing the injury does not exceed the magnitude of the injury multiplied by its likelihood of occurring.
		The rule, also sometimes reffered to as the "Hand Test," is most notable for its economic approach to a legal rule; an approach that is the foundation of the law and economics school of legal thought.
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	Learned Hand
		Source: The Spirit of Liberty, papers and addresses of Learned Hand, together with The Bill of Rights The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, 1958, by Learned Hand, a facsimile of the 1974 Third Edition, Enlarged, by Alfred A. Knopf, produced by Legal Classics Library, Birmingham, 1989.
		Dilliard to be Judge Hand's "epigrammatic commandment for his fellow members of the bar" spoken at a speech "at the seventy-fifth anniversary dinner of the Legal Aid Society of New York on February 16, 1951...."
		And in the end slowly and with infinite disappointment they do learn a little; they learn to forbear, to reckon with anther, accept a little where they wanted much, to live and let live, to yield when they must yield; perhaps, we may hope, not to take all they can.
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	Judge Learned Hand -- The rest of the story - Glock Talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Judge Learned Hand: Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
		Judge Learned Hand Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law.
		Judge Learned Hand: All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.
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	Commonweal: Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge. - book reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gunther underscores that it was Hand's skepticism about individual reason that made him reluctant to allow judges to exercise an absolute veto over the collective wisdom of the masses.
		Inheriting a family tradition of Jeffersonianism, Hand maintained a cautious faith in the democratic spirit, and a concomitant reluctance to allow judges to thwart popular decisions.
		Hand recognized the problem of a tyrannical majority, and was vigilant in protecting freedom of speech, a right that he felt was crucial to the maintenance of democracy itself.
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		What I Learned Satire on lessons learned in clinical psychology graduate school.
		Selected Gems of Learned Hand An assortment of quotations.
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	The doubting judge
		Hand was born in Albany, N.Y., in 1872, the only son of an intellectually rigorous lawyer and an over-protective, Calvinist mother.
		Hand was 14 when his father died, and for the rest of his life he felt inadequate beside his own idealized image of his father.
		Hand was a driven child, sober and dutiful.
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	UO President Dave Frohnmayer Honored
		Dave Frohnmayer, University of Oregon president and former Oregon attorney general, has received the 2004 Judge Learned Hand Award from the American Jewish Committee for his adherence to the principles of excellence in the legal field and for his service to the community.
		The American Jewish Committee instituted the Learned Hand Award in 1964 to honor the memory of Judge Learned Hand, who was recognized as the heir to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' legacy of jurist, philosopher and poet of liberty.
		The Learned Hand Award honors leaders in the legal field for professional excellence and contributions to the legal community.
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Hand
		Hand, Augustus Noble (1869-1954) — of New York.
		Hand, Billings Learned (1872-1961) — also known as Learned Hand — of New York.
		Son of Albert Reeves Hand and Sarah (Millet) Hand; married, March 1, 1930, to Mary Mercer Worth (died) and Elizabeth Frost Spang.
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	Learned Hand — B < PL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Learned Hand — B < PL Learned Hand
		On the other hand, the barge must not be the bargee's prison, even though he lives aboard; he must go ashore at times.
		We need not say whether, even in such crowded waters as New York Harbor a bargee must be aboard at night at all; it may be that the custom is otherwise, as Ward, J., supposed in 'The Kathryn B. Guinan,' supra; n17 and that, if so, the situation is one where custom should control.
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	LEARNED HAND - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 09/07/1956
		Learned Hand (1872-1961) received his law degree from Harvard in 1896.
		He was a Judge of the U.S. District Court for New York's Southern District (1909-1924) and of the Federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals (1924-1951).
		He was noted especially as a defender of free speech and is regarded by many as the greatest judge never to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/6_2002/law/LEARNED_HAND.htm (481 words)

	Defining Computer Program Parts Under Learned Hand's Abstractions Test in Software Copyright Infringement Cases
		Although Learned Hand’s test is not a panacea for all the current ills of software copyright law, it provides a framework for coherent program part definitions that should increase that law’s consistency.
		Although Learned Hand’s abstractions test86 does not specify where the idea-expression line lies,87 refinements of the test that define appropriate levels of abstraction may help courts properly draw the line during a substantial similarity analysis.
		If Judge Hand meant that agreement on proper placement of the line between idea and expression is unachievable, the current chaotic state of software copyright law suggests he was correct.
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