Joan C. Burnham, Etc. v. The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · Decided 1989-05-03

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SELYA, Circuit Judge. This is a hard case — hard not in the sense that it is legally difficult or tough to crack, but in the sense that it requires us, like the court below, to deny relief to a plaintiff for whom we have considerable sympathy. We do what we must, for “it is the duty of all courts of justice to take care, for the general good of the community, that hard cases do…

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