Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philosophical Locations- In the 1920s, Brandeis, his closest friend Oliver Wendell Holmes and Harlan Fiske Stone formed a minority whose famed dissenting opinions became a Court tradition. When the majority had ruled against the right of a stonecutters' union to call a strike against a plaintiff's non...
When Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo replaced Justice Holmes in 1932, the change did nothing to alter the Court's balance and it was a minority again which defended Florida's right to impose a system of graduated taxes on chain stores. Brandeis' opinion, in this case too...
As they used to go to Mr. Justice Holmes, Harvard Law's top ranking graduates now spend a year with Mr. Brandeis as his secretaries. And through his close friend, Felix Frankfurter, Mr. Brandeis exerts a powerful humanizing influence in the nation's greatest law school. In Washington...
Both sides of the issue were admirably stated by Mr. Justice Holmes in connection with the establishment of martial law during the great 1904 strike of the United Mine Workers in Colorado (212 U. S. at 85): "No doubt there are cases where the expert on the sport may be...
There are, to be sure, some very effective bits. The discussion of taking gold out of a hole in Brazil and putting it into a hole in Kentucky, and the wild attempts to assign a purpose to the operation, are rather trenchant, and the song "Off the Record" is a...