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Jun 14, 2024 · Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, U.S. legal historian and philosopher who advocated judicial restraint. He stated the concept of “clear and present danger” as the only basis for limiting the right of freedom of speech.
- The Common Law
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Supreme Court, Jurist, Legal...
- Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter (born Nov. 15, 1882, Vienna,...
- The Common Law
2 days ago · In June of 1918, by chance, Hand and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., met on a train from New York City to Boston, each headed to his summer home. ... Holmes pushed back with his well-known ...
Jun 14, 2024 · Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Supreme Court, Jurist, Legal Theory: In 1880–81 Holmes was invited to lecture on the common law at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and from these addresses developed his book The Common Law (1881).
1 day ago · 07-05-2024. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously observed that controversial cases could exert an “hydraulic pressure” on judges that led them to make poor judgments. “Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law.”. Such is the case with Trump v. United States, where the majority of the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is one of the few modern judges whose reputations have survived the twentieth century's culture wars relatively intact. Among his contemporaries Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand, Holmes was the first to become a judicial and cultural icon.
2 days ago · Books That Shaped America explored "The Common Law," an 1881 book authored by legal scholar and jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. who later went on to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Books That Shaped America is a 10-part series, created in partnership with the Library of Congress, that examines major works of literature that have had a ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Former Associate Justice of the U.S Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, “A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in ...
