Legal Opinion
Securities Industry Association v. Michael J. Connolly, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 31, 1989No. 89-1022PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Hypertrophy is the pathologic “overgrowth ... of an organ or part ... resulting from unusually steady or severe use_” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 1114 (1981). Metaphor-ists seem to find the condition irresistible. Thus, hypertrophy has been used as a partial explanation for the collapse of entire intellectual systems, e.g., Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2d ed. 1970), and detailed mechanical intellectual artifacts, e.g., Posner, Goodbye to the Bluebook, 54 U.Chi.L.Rev. 1343 (1986). We succumb today to the same temptation, for we find the…
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