Word: cardozos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such hope died when Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo began to read. As he is an outstanding liberal, his reading meant that the liberals of the Court were in the majority...
...Justice Cardozo retorted...
...decision was this but 5-2-1-1. Justice Sutherland read a minority opinion in which he and Justice Van Devanter agreed with what Mr. Cardozo had said except that they held that the law, in requiring the States to deposit their unemployment tax collections in the U. S. Treasury, went too far-invaded States' rights by placing States' money under the Federal thumb. Justice Butler delivered his own dissent declaring...
Having thus disposed of the unemployment insurance law, Justice Cardozo went on to the old-age annuity section. This was an appeal by the Government from a lower court decision in favor of Stockholder George P. Davis who sued Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston to restrain it from paying old age pension taxes on its payrolls. This time Justice Cardozo carried seven members of the court with him in approving the law, leaving Justices Butler and McReynolds to dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform...
...monumental task of restating the principles of law. By February 1923 wise old Mr. Root had vitalized the idea, secured from the Carnegie Corp. an initial $1,000,000 appropriation to organize the American Law Institute. He became its first president. Professor Lewis its director. To Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, then an associate judge of New York's Court of Appeals, creation of the A. L. I. signalized "to the world that laissez faire in law is going or has gone the way of laissez faire in economics...