Legal Opinion
Unzueta v. Ocean View School District
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 4, 1992No. B058873PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
YEGAN, J.
In 1935 Judge Learned Hand asked: “How far is a judge free in rendering a decision?” (Hand, The Spirit of Liberty (1952).) Judge Hand *1693did not answer the question but did put the judicial dilemma in perspective by saying: “So you will see that a judge is in a contradictory position; he is pulled by two opposite forces. On the one hand he must not enforce whatever he thinks best; he must leave that to the common will expressed by the government. On the other, he must try as best he can to put into concrete form what that will is, not by slavishly following the words, but by…
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