Field v. Mans, 516 U.S. 59, 26 (1995)

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FIELD v. MANS

Breyer, J., dissenting

gests that appellate courts can, or should, insist that lower courts use commentator-approved technical terminology when the parties have not argued for its use and when that use seems most unlikely to have made any difference. Doing so simply generates unnecessary appeals, creating additional delay and expense in a system that could use less of both.

For these reasons, I dissent.

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