William L. Calley, Jr., Cross-Appellant v. Howard H. Callaway, Etc., Etc., Cross-Appellees

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1975-09-10

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BELL, Circuit Judge, with whom GEWIN, THORNBERRY, MORGAN and CLARK, Circuit Judges, join (dissenting). Justice Holmes once observed that: “Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhel…

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