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Comment—Bad News and Good News: Losing vs. Finding the Phenomenon in Legal Settings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Douglas W. Maynard
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , Spring 2006 , pp. 477 - 497
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2006 

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