“The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.”

— Robert H. Jackson

Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Northwestern Public Service Co., 341 U.S. 246, 250 (1951)
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American judge 1892–1954

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