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The authors disclose that the word “chutzpah” has appeared in 112 judicial decisions since the republic was founded. All but 11 have been filed since 1980. (“Unmitigated gall” appears but 10 times.) “It could be that the actual amount of chutzpah in the legal system has increased, but I doubt it,” says Alex Kozinski, one of the coauthors and in his spare time a federal appeals judge in Pasadena, Calif....