Legal Giants, RIP

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Number Six
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Legal Giants, RIP

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Two US legal giants I admired:

Robert Morganthau and Justice Stevens both passed away in the last week:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/nyre ... -dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/j ... -dead.html
'There are two kinds of injustice: the first is found in those who do an injury, the second in those who fail to protect another from injury when they can.' (Roman. Cicero, De Off. I. vii)

'Choose loss rather than shameful gains.' (Chilon Fr. 10. Diels)