Hans A. Linde

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Hans A. Linde
79th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
In office 1977–1990
Appointed by	Robert W. Straub
Preceded by	William M. McAllister
Succeeded by	Richard Unis
Personal details
Born	(1924-04-15) April 15, 1924 Berlin, Germany
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Reed College University of California at Berkeley Law School

Hans Arthur Linde, (born April 15, 1924) is a German American attorney and former jurist in Oregon. Born in Germany, he also lived with his family in Denmark before immigrating to Portland, Oregon. After serving in the United States Army during World War II he graduated from college and law school. Linde then worked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, the United States Department of State, and as a law professor at the University of Oregon School of Law before appointment to the Oregon Supreme Court. He served on the court from 1977 to 1990 and is now a distinguished scholar in residence at Willamette University College of Law in Salem. He now lives in Portland, Oregon.

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^[1](1960).

Hans Linde was schooled in Copenhagen, Denmark (from 1933 to 1939); his family then moved to Portland, Oregon. He earned a B.A. from Reed College in 1947, after army service in World War II, and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall in 1950. He was a member of Phi 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^[2] and Feiner v. New York.^[3] 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. Senator Richard L. Neuberger, 1955-1958. Linde was Associate Professor and Professor of Law at the University 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 a Fulbright lecturer in Freiburg and Hamburg, as well as at Willamette University. His publications include a coursebook in Legislative and Administrative Processes and more than 100 articles, lectures, and reviews.

Justice Linde served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1977 to 1990. He was appointed by Governor Robert 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 also served on the Oregon Law Commission until 2009. He is an emeritus member of the Council of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A compilation of his writings from 1947-1992 is set out 70 Oregon Law Review xv-xix (1991).

Selected Judicial 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)
Anderson v. Fisher Broadcasting, 300 Or. 452, 712 .2d 803 (1986) (invasion of privacy & press freedom)
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)
Humphers 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)

Selected 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, "Constitutional Law: 1959 Oregon Survey," 39 Oregon Law Review 138 (1960)

Linde, "A Republic if You Can keep It," 16 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 295 (1989)

Linde, "Replacing a President: Rx for a 21st Century Watergate," 43 George Washington Law Review 384 (1975)

Linde, "Campus Law: Berkeley Viewed From Eugene," 54 California Law Review 40 (1966)

Linde, "Are State Constitutions Common Law?," 34 Arizona Law Review 215 (1992)

Linde, “The State and the Federal Courts in Governance: Vive la Difference!,” 46 William & Mary Law Review 1273 (2005)

Linde, "Who Is Responsible for Republican Government?," 65 University of Colorado Law Review 709 (1994).

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 UCLA Law Review 174 (1969)

Linde, "The Press and Rights," New York Times, April 27, 1979

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, Book Review, 81 Harvard Law Review 922 (1968) (review of Diplomats, Scientists, and Politicians by Harold Jacobson and Eric Stein)

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 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)

Linde, two chapters in R.J. Barnet and R.A. Falk, editors, Security in Disarmament (1965)

Linde, "Structures and Terms of Consent: Delegation, Discretion, Separation of Powers, Representation, Participation, Accountability?,” 20 Cardozo Law Review 823 (1999)

Linde, “What Is a Constitution, What is Not, and Why Does it Matter?,” 87 Oregon Law Review 717 (2008)

Linde, “The Inadequacy of Impeachment,” in Donald L. Robinson, editor, Reforming American Government (1985), pp. 209–214

Linde & David B. Frohnmayer, "Prescription for the Citizen Legislature: Cutting the Gordian Knot," 56 Oregon Law Review 3 (1977)

David B. Frohnmayer & Hans A. Linde, "State Court Responsibility for Maintaining 'Republican Government': An Amicus Curiae Brief," 39 Willamette Law Review1487 (2003) (brief of Linde and Frohnmayer as Amici Curiae in Support of the Petition for Certiorari, cert. denied, Sawyer v. Or. ex rel. Huddleston, 118 S. Ct. 557 (1997))

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

↑ David Linde
↑ Dennis v. United States (1951) (Douglas, J., dissenting)
↑ Feiner v. New York (1951) (Douglas, J., dissenting)

External links

"The Hon. Hans A. Linde, Distinguished Scholar in Residence". Faculty, College of Law. Willamette University. Retrieved 2006-08-11.
Oregon Law and the Wayne Morse Center to Launch Hans Linde Project on Multinational Institutions (Spring, 2010)

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Persondata
Name	Linde, Hans
Alternative names
Short description	American judge
Date of birth	April 15, 1924
Place of birth	Berlin, Germany
Date of death
Place of death

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