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Burying (With Kindness) The Felicific Calculus Of Civil Procedure, Linda S. Mullenix
Burying (With Kindness) The Felicific Calculus Of Civil Procedure, Linda S. Mullenix
Vanderbilt Law Review
On January 2, 1986, Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit announced to an astonished legal profession, not to mention the unsuspecting attorneys-of-record, that, in the future, the Seventh Circuit would decide whether to grant or deny a preliminary injunction by applying the following simple formula:
P x Hp > (1-P) x Hd
With one fell swoop of his algebraic-judicial pen, Judge Posner not only stirred the deepest math anxieties of the practicing bar, but revolutionized preliminary injunction law. Despite Judge Posner's protestations that his simple formula was not "offered as a new legal …