A famous judge ranked lawsuits among life’s greatest dreads.

Evidence

“As a litigant,” a famous judge once wrote, “I should dread a lawsuit beyond almost anything else short of sickness and death.”°? Yet Amer- icans file millions of lawsuits each year. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2376

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• CANDY: A striking Learned Hand quip—good for an elevator conversation about how even judges fear litigation.