Henry Curtis Lind was an American lawyer and the fourteenth reporter of decisions

Supreme Court of the United States Reporter of Decisions

The Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States is the official charged with editing and publishing the Court's opinions both when announced and when they are published in permanent bound volumes of the United States Reports. The Reporter of Decisions is responsible for only...

 of the United States Supreme Court from 1979 to 1989.

Born in Cranston, Rhode Island

Cranston, Rhode Island

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, he received his A.B.

Bachelor of Arts

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 from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1943 and his law degree from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1949. He was in private practice from 1949 to 1957, when he joined the staff of the Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company in Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

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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 typesetting

Typesetting

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