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4 Nov 2021, 6:00 am by Lesley Schoenfeld
He stands in front of a wall of books in what appears to be his Washington, D.C. office. [read post]
4 Nov 2021, 6:00 am by Lesley Schoenfeld
He stands in front of a wall of books in what appears to be his Washington, D.C. office. [read post]
6 Dec 2013, 11:02 am by Dan Ernst
Other notable figures include Supreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Benjamin Cardozo, and Lindley Murray, a lawyer best known as "the father of English grammar." [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 2:17 pm by AdamSmith1776
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law at p. 1 (1881) Of all the pithy and enduring observations that have been made about our profession (and, yes, our industry), this may be my all-time favorite. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 2:24 pm by Patti Spencer
U.S. courts long have supported this concept, including a 1911 ruling in which Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote: "A contract of insurance upon a life in which the insured has no interest is a pure wager that gives the insured a sinister counter interest in having the life come to an end. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 11:09 pm
The more good decisions we make on an ever-accumulating basis, the better off we probably are.One critical element of life was perhaps best expressed by the judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who said that a man must share in the passion and action of his era or risk being judged as not having lived. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 1:40 pm by Dov
This room, once called the Treasure Room, is like a Harvard Law time capsule–original manuscripts, paintings, busts, and even Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 12:01 pm
As detailed by the Wall Street Journal 's Jess Bravin, the responses place considerable distance between Kagan and certain schools of legal thought, among them critical legal studies and legal realism.Even as the responses throw those theories under the bus, they embrace Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 9:04 am
I certainly think he's being honest and believes, as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., put it "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. prophetically stated in his dissent from the infamous 1905 case of Lochner v. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 4:18 pm by INFORRM
Judge Kūris paraphrases Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the opening sentence of his critical dissent: “It is often said that hard cases make bad law. [read post]
To paraphrase former Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., an employee may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be employed. [read post]
23 Oct 2015, 3:35 am by Randy Barnett
Those who didn’t eventually became the political conservatives’ judicial heroes But judicial activism was clearly a pejorative to those conservatives like Graglia, Bork, and Wilkerson who completely bought into the Progressive vision of the judiciary expounded loudly by Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and TR’s favorite judge, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a Harvard man like his former-colleague James Bradley Thayer who pushed the Progressives to adopt restraint as… [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 6:30 am by ernst
Horton (1891), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in an opinion by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., upheld a trial judge’s determination, in a subsequent bench trial, that a horse destroyed by the Board of Health did not have glanders, an infectious bacterial disease, after all. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 9:03 am by Schachtman
“For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 5:48 pm by Larry Downes
Google’s view was perhaps best put by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his 1919 dissent in Abrams v. [read post]
A blaze of recent publicity, and a great deal of legal maneuvering, has turned on the issue of the conservatorship of Britney Spears. [read post]