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...also Hoover who learned that the Senate can pressure a President into nominating its man instead of his own. After Holmes resigned in 1932, leaving the court with two New Yorkers and a Jew, Hoover's last choice was Judge Benjamin Cardozo-a New Yorker, a Jew and a Democrat to boot. Cardozo, however, had wide appeal as a reformer, and as the Depression deepened in an election year, Senate leaders indicated to the President that it was possible that no one else would be confirmed. Hoover was forced to name Cardozo-and hear his move lauded...
...York (9): Samuel Nelson, Ward Hunt, Samuel Blatchford, Rufus Peckham, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Stone, Benjamin Cardozo, Robert Jackson, John Harlan; Ohio (8): Noah Swayne, Salmon Chase, Morrison Waite, Stanley Matthews, William Day, John Clarke, Harold Burton, Potter Stewart; Massachusetts (6): Benjamin Curtis, Horace Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Moody, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter.* Jackson and Taft also nominated...
Lawyers for the states and the Justice Department implored the court to the contrary. Don't expand the limited Escobedo ruling in ways that handcuff police interrogation, they said. Don't forget society's rights and Benjamin Cardozo's words: "Justice, though due the accused, is due the accuser also." Don't abandon "totality of circumstances" in judging whether confessions are free or coerced. Don't assume that "focus" is workable as an objective test. Don't expect judges to reconstruct just when the focus point was reached or whether the suspect really...
...famous opinion by Judge (later Supreme Court Justice) Benjamin Cardozo, however, the New York Court of Appeals upheld MacPherson and extended manufacturers' liability to third parties for any product "reasonably certain to place life and limb in danger when negligently made." The decision left intact one vital requirement: the plaintiff must prove that the manufacturer was negligent...
...manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who had officiated at Frankfurter's marriage to Marion A. Denman, the daughter of a Congregational minister. F.D.R. phoned Cambridge, where he caught his friend dressing for dinner. Standing in his underwear, Frankfurter heard the "warmth-enveloping" voice asking him to succeed Cardozo. "All I can say," muttered Frankfurter...