Henry Curtis Lind (October 12, 1921 – November 11, 2013) was an American lawyer and the fourteenth

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of the

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from 1979 to 1987. Born in

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, he received his A.B. from

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in 1943 and his law degree from

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in 1949. He was in private practice from 1949 to 1957, when he joined the staff of the

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, editing the ''Lawyer's Edition of the United States Reports'' and the ''United States Supreme Court Digest''. He was assistant reporter of decisions for the court from 1973 to 1979 and oversaw the transition from hot lead to computer

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. He also wrote a manual of style and composition for judicial writing.

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