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6 Oct 2017, 2:48 am by Scott Bomboy
United States, a majority of the Court upheld the act, but Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes dissented, with Justice Louis Brandeis agreeing with Holmes. [read post]
20 Jan 2023, 4:00 am by Guest Author
To quote Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in Path of the Law: “It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
”[2] (Oliver Wendell Holmes notably dissented: “It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account. [read post]
24 Mar 2007, 11:12 am
  As Justice Field ossified, he came firmly to believe that the Civil War amendments altered the pre-War order only with regard to slavery. [read post]
13 Jul 2009, 10:27 am
As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. famously said, the life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience. [read post]
14 Sep 2011, 12:08 pm
As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "deep seated preferences cannot be argued about," and "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. [read post]
8 Jan 2012, 3:56 pm
"Even a dog, however, knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked," said Oliver Wendell Holmes. [read post]
7 Jul 2017, 5:48 am by SHG
Brennan Jr. (84), Hugo Black (85), and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (90). [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 4:00 am by Steve McConnell
Oliver Wendell Holmes was on the Massachusetts bench, and New York had Cardozo. [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 2:00 pm
This point was clearly made by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s famous observation that, "[t]he most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [read post]
20 Nov 2011, 6:00 am by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Arizona to his views on Learned Hand, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Louis Brandeis, for whom he clerked in 1927. [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 9:03 am by Ronald Collins
Arizona to his views on Learned Hand, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Louis Brandeis, for whom he clerked in 1927. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 9:21 am
Oliver Wendell Holmes is alleged to have said: "This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 7:29 am by Lawrence Cunningham
Williston’s philosophy dovetailed with that of the eminent jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Corbin’s resonated with that of the esteemed judge, Benjamin N. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 10:35 am
" (The Path of the Law, 1897)No figure was more iconic for the small group of academic lawyers who thought of themselves as "realists" than Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935, Supreme Court 1902-1932) and no statement better exemplified his appeal to them than his bold prediction quoted above. [read post]
26 Jul 2007, 10:01 pm
  Seven years ago, Justice Stevens, of all judges, quoted Holmes' pithy summary of the core rationale:In his 1881 lecture on the criminal law, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., observed: "The law threatens certain pains if you do certain things, intending thereby to give you a new motive for not doing them. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 4:04 am by rhapsodyinbooks
(Justice Rufus Peckham wrote the opinion; Justice Harlan along with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. filed dissents.) [read post]