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Prudent Risk Management: A Court Administrator's View

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From: Justice System Journal
Date: 20070101
Author:Pines, Zygmont A

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once remarked that a word is "the skin of living I thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used." Tourne v. Eisner (1918). In the formative years of our nation, "security" was a concept invoked to protect the citizenry against actions of the new national government. Among our first Bill of Rights was "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects." Today, security has an expansive meaning that goes well beyond arbitrary government action. Every day we take ...

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