Richard Chira v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1980-10-14

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IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge: Courts of the Anglo-American legal tradition receive their mandate, in the most profound sense, from Magna Charta’s twin covenants not to deny or delay — negabimus aut differemus — justice. To secure the first promise, courts administer a massive body of substantive principles. To fulfill the second, for centur…

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