- Hans A. Linde
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name = Hans A. Linde
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office = 79th Associate Justice of theOregon Supreme Court
termstart = 1977
termend = 1990
appointer =Robert W. Straub
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predecessor =William M. McAllister
successor =Richard Unis
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1924|4|15|mf=y
birthplace =Berlin ,Germany
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spouse =Hans Arthur Linde, (born 1924) is a German-American attorney and former jurist in the U.S. state of
Oregon . Born inGermany , he also lived with his family inDenmark before immigrating toPortland, Oregon . After serving in theUnited States Army duringWorld War II he graduated from college andlaw school . Linde then worked for Supreme Court JusticeWilliam O. Douglas , theUnited States Department of State , and as a law professor at theUniversity of Oregon School of Law before appointment to theOregon Supreme Court . He served on the court from 1977 to 1990 and is now a distinguished scholar in residence atWillamette University College of Law in Salem.Career
Linde was born on April 15, 1924 in
Berlin ,Germany , to Bruno C. (judge and attorney) and Louise Linde. He married Helen Tucker on August 13, 1945; they are the parents of Lisa (1955) and David Linde [ [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/interviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1980627 David Linde] ] (1960).Hans Linde was schooled in
Copenhagen ,Denmark (from 1933 to 1939); his family then moved to Portland,Oregon . He earned a B.A. fromReed College in 1947, after army service in World War II, and a J.D. from theUniversity of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall in 1950. He was a member ofPhi Beta Kappa , Order of the Coif and served as the editor-in-chief of the "California Law Review" (1949-1950) (see Notes, 36 Cal. L. Rev. 628 (1948) & 37 Cal. L. Rev. 129 (1949)). He was admitted to practice law in Oregon in 1950.Linde was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice
William O. Douglas , 1950-51, during which time the Court handed down "Dennis v. United States" [ [http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/case.aspx?case=Dennis_v_US Dennis v. United States] (1951) (Douglas, J., dissenting)] and "Feiner v. New York". [ [http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/case.aspx?case=Feiner_v_NY Feiner v. New York] (1951) (Douglas, J., dissenting)] He then worked as an attorney in the Office of the Legal Adviser to the Department of State and Adviser to the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly (1951-53). Afterwards he was a Legislative Assistant to U.S. SenatorRichard L. Neuberger , 1955-1958. Linde was Associate Professor and Professor of Law at theUniversity of Oregon in 1954 and 1959-76, and has been a visiting professor in the law schools at U.C.L.A., Stanford, New York University, University of Texas, and aFulbright lecturer inFreiburg andHamburg , as well as at Willamette University. His publications include a coursebook in Legislative and Administrative Processes and more than 75 articles, lectures, and reviews.Justice Linde served on the
Oregon Supreme Court from 1977 to 1990. He was appointed by GovernorRobert W. Straub to a term beginning January 3, 1977 and was elected in 1978 and re-elected in 1984. His term expired on December 3, 1990.He was a member of Oregon's Commission on Constitutional Revision in 1961-63, and currently serves on the
Oregon Law Commission . He is a member of the Council of theAmerican Law Institute and a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences .Both with his scholarly articles and judicial opinions, Linde played a leading role in the rediscovery of state constitutions and state law as sources of protection for individual rights and limitations on government power.
Opinions
*"Brown v. Multnomah County Dist. Court", 280 Or. 95, 570 P.2d 52 (1977) (fair trial)
*"City of La Grande/Astoria v. Public Employees Retirement Board", 281 Or. 137, 576 P.2d 1204, "aff'd on rehearing", 284 Or. 173, 586 P.2d 765 (1978) (home rule)
*"City of Portland v. Tidyman", 306 Or. 174, 759 P.2d 242 (1988) (zoning & free expression)
*"Cooper v. Eugene School Dist., No. 4J", 301 Or. 358, 723 P.2d 298 (1986) (rts. of public employees, religious freedom)
*"DeFazio v. WPPSS", 296 Or. 550, 679 P.2d 1316 (1984)
*"Fazzolari v. Portland School District No. 1J", 303 Or. 1, 734 P.2d 1326 (1987) (torts: negligence)
*"Hall v. May Department Store Co.", 292 Or. 131, 637 P.2d 1255 (1982) (torts: intentional affliction of emotional distress)
*"Humpers v. First Interstate Bank", 298 Or. 706, 696 P.2d 527 (1985) (privacy)
*"Kabil Development Corporation v. Mignot", 279 Or. 151, 566 P.2d 505 (1977) (contracts)
*"Koos v. Roth", 293 Or. 670, 652 P.2d 1255 (1982) (torts: strict liability)
*"Lipscomb v. State", 305 Or. 472, 753 P.2d 939 (1988) (veto power & the referendum)
*"Marbet v. PGE", 277 Or. 447, 561 P.2d 154 (1977)
*"McCall v. Legislative Assembly", 291 Or. 663, 634 P.2d 223 (1981) (legislative reapportionment)
*"Megdal v. Oregon State Board of Dental Examiners", 288 Or. 293, 605 P.2d 273 (1980) (admin. law)
*"Nearing v. Weaver", 295 Or. 702, 670 P.2d 137 (1983) (torts)
*"Ross v. Springfield School Dist.No. 19", 300 Or. 507, 716 P.2d 724 (1986) (rts. of public employees)
*"State v. Clark", 291 Or. 231, 630 P.2d 810 (1981) (criminal justice & equality of treatment)
*"State v. Freeland", 295 Or. 367, 667 P.2d 509 (1983) (grand juries & equality of treatment)
*"State v. Greene", 285 Or. 337, 347, 591 P.2d 1362, 1367 (1979) (concurring) (criminal procedure)
*"State v. Lowry", 295 Or. 337, 667 P.2d 996 (1983) (search & seizure)
*"State v. Robertson", 293 Or. 402, 649 P.2d 569 (1982) (coercion laws & free speech))
*"State v. Smith", 301 Or. 681, 702, 725 P.2d 894, 907 (1986) (dissenting) (self-incrimination)
*"State v. Tourtillott", 289 Or. 845, 869, 618 P.2d 423, 435 (1980) (dissenting) (auto checkpoints)
*"State of Oregon v. Wagner II", 309 Or. 5, 20, 786 P.2d 93, 101 ((1990) (dissenting) (popular initiative & death penalty)
*"Sterling v. Cupp", 290 Or. 611, 625 P.2d 123 (1981) (treatment of prisoners)Scholarly publications, etc.
H. Linde & G. Bunn, "Legislative & Administrative Processes" (Foundation, 1976) (2nd ed., 1982)Brodie & Linde, "State Court Review of Administrative Action: Prescribing the Scope of Review," 1977 Arizona State Law Journal 537
Linde, "A Republic if You Can keep It," 16 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 295 (1989)
Linde, "Are State Constitutions Common Law?," 34 Arizona Law Review 215 (1992)
Linde, "Constitutional Rights in the Public Sector: Justice Douglas on Freedom in the Welfare State," 39 Washington Law Review 4 and 40 Washington Law Review 10 (1965) (pts 1 & 2)
Linde, "Clear and Present Danger Reexamined: Dissonance in the Brandenburg Concerto," 22 Stanford Law Review 1163 (1970)
Linde, "Comment on "Powell v. McCormack"," 17 U.C.L.A. Law Review 174 (1969)
Linde, "Courts and Censorship," 66 Minnesota Law Review 171 (1981)
Linde, "Does the 'New Federalism' Have a Future?," 4 Emerging Issues in State Constitutional Law 251 (1991)
Linde, "Commentary -- Douglas as Internationalist," in "He Shall Not Pass This Way Again": The Legacy of Justice William O. Douglas", Stephen L. Wasby, editor (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990) pp. 305-311
Linde, "Due Process of Lawmaking," 55 Nebraska Law Review 197 (1976) (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Devise Lectures for 1975)
Linde, "E Pluribus" -- Constitutional Theory & State Courts," 18 Georgia Law Review 165 (1984) (Sibley Lecture)
Linde, "Fair Trials & Press Freedom -- Two Rights Against the State," 13 "
Willamette Law Review " 211 (1977)Linde, "First Things First: Rediscovering the States' Bills of Rights," 9 University of Baltimore Law Review 379 (1980) (first annual Judge Irving A. Levine lecture)
Linde, "Hercules in a Populist Age," 103 Harvard Law Review 2067 (1990) (book review)
Linde, "Judges, Critics, and the Realist Tradition," 82 Yale Law Journal 227 (1972)
Linde, "Remarks of Justice Hans A. Linde: Lane County Bar Association, Eugene, April 23, 1984," in 70 Oregon Law Review 747, at 799-802 (1991) (Appendix D) (1984 re-election campaign remarks)
Linde, "State, Sovereignty, and International Law -- A Study of Three German Legal Theories," 1947 Senior Thesis, Reed College (available at [http://simeon.library.reed.edu/ Reed College Library] )
Linde, "Without 'Due Process' -- Unconstitutional Law in Oregon," 49 Oregon Law Review 125 (1970)
Linde, "When Initiative Lawmaking is not 'Republican Government': The Campaign Against Homosexuality," 72 Oregon Law Review 19 (1993)
Linde, "Alternative approaches to the international organization of disarmament" (contributor, Rand Report)
Appellate briefs authored by Linde
Brief for Petitioner, "Holmes v. Appling", 237 Or. 546, 392 P.2d 636 (1964)Amicus Curiae Brief for Oregon Environmental Council, "American Can Company v. Oregon Liquor Control Commission", 15 Or. App. 618, 517 P.2d 691 (1973)
Amicus Curiae Brief for Oregon Newspapers Association, "Deras v. Myers", 272 Or. 47, 535 P.2d 541 (1975)
References
Footnotes
Further reading
Robert F. Nagel, editor, "Intellect and Craft: The Contributions of Hans A. Linde to American Constitutionalism" (Westview Press, 1995)"Symposium on the Work of Justice Hans Linde," 70 Oregon Law Review 679-1007 (1991) (with extensive bibliography) (contributions by: Dave Frohnmayer, Louis H. Pollak, William Cohen, G. Edward White, Ronald K.L. Collins, Caroline A. Forell, Rex Armstrong, Rives Kistler, & student comments)
John P. Frank, "A Tribute to Justice Hans A. Linde," 1984 Annual Survey of American Law xxi
Alfred Goodwin, "A Tribute to Hans Linde," 1984 Annual Survey of American Law xv
Abner Mikva, "Hans Linde: Hard to Bluff," 1984 Annual Survey of American Law ix
Robert Summers, "Hans A. Linde as Seen by a Junior Colleague -- A Personal Tribute," 1984 Annual Survey of American Law xi
Sanford Levinson, "Tiers of Scrutiny -- From Strict Through Rational Basis -- and the Future of Interests: Commentary on Fiss and Linde," 55 Albany Law Review 745 (1992) (referring to Linde as "easily one of the three most important state court judges in this century")
[http://www.utexas.edu/law/journals/tlr/abstracts/Volume%2075/Wald.htm Patricia M. Wald, "Hans Linde and the Elusive Art of Judging: Intellect and Craft are Never Enoug," 75 Texas Law Review 215 (1996)]
Richard Kipling, "A Scholar Named Mr. Justice Linde," Western Law Journal Newspaper (then published by L.A. Daily Journal), March-April, 1980, p. 1
Elder Witt, "Hans A. Linde -- The Unassuming Architect of an Emerging Role for State Constitutions," Governing Mag., July, 1989, at 56
David Margolick, "State Judiciaries are Shaping Law That Goes Beyond Supreme Court," New York Times, May 19, 1982, sect. A, p. 1
Heather Davis, "Tribute to Justice Hans A. Linde," Albany Law Review (June 2001)
[http://www.willamette.edu/wucl/lawreview/symposium.htm "Willamette Law Review Symposium: Unparalleled Justice: The Legacy of Hans Linde" (October 2006)]
" [http://www.acslaw.org/node/3763?PHPSESSID=493255f83b134c281eb6f322c6886de7 Hans A. Linde Receives Award" (American Constitution Society, Oregon Chapter, November 2006)]
External links
*cite web| url=http://www.willamette.edu/wucl/faculty/linde.htm
title= The Hon. Hans A. Linde, Distinguished Scholar in Residence
work=Faculty, College of Law
publisher=Willamette University
accessdate=2006-08-11
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