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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...
...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...
...they often do. Eighty-year-old Justice Brandeis seemed to be studying something intently, occasionally scratching his ear and smiling faintly. Next to him square-headed Justice Butler, 70, chuckled over something to Justice Roberts, 61, the Court's baby. At the other end of the bench Justice Cardozo. 66, was reading intently. Justice Sutherland. 74, stroked his Vandyke, also read. Chief Justice Hughes, 74, spoke quietly to Justice Van Devanter beside him and Mr. Van Devanter, 77, smiled dourly. But the argument went on to its conclusion, the Justices interrupting occasionally to make inquiries. Finally they rose...
Quoting these sentences of Associate Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo...