Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language *(Revised for Fall '25)

Resource 4 . 3 . 1 . 1

2 minutes

United States v. Carroll Towing Co. ("The Hand Formula Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

The judge in this case is the famous Learned (yes, that's his first name) Hand (yes, that's his last name). He offers a formula, and it's been named as his formula. What is it, and what is it supposed to tell a court?

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