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May 6, 2024 · During his over three decades on the Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., developed a jurisprudence that echoed across the 20th century. In contrast with the dominant thought of the day, Holmes believed the legislature to be the expression of the public.
Apr 28, 2024 · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. believed in hard work and knowledge. He remarked, “most things in this world, half their terrors vanish when you walk up and tackle them.” The anxious thoughts about what “might” happen were often worse than the actual situation.
4 days ago · In a long article in the Atlantic Monthly in April 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. argued that “crime can be shown to run in the blood.” Two years later, the sociologist Richard L. Dugdale published The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity.
4 days ago · Segregationists, moreover, could point to a wall of precedent built or countenanced by leading jurists, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Louis Brandeis. Prior to 1954, vanishingly few judges had ruled that racial segregation violated the Constitution. In Brown, the Court broke free from baleful tradition.
22 hours ago · This eugenics law became famous as it worked its way through the court system, reaching the Supreme Court in 1927 in Buck v. Bell. There, in a landmark ruling that would stand until the ’60s, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. would pen the terrible closing lines of the majority opinion: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
5 days ago · There, in a landmark ruling that would stand until the ’60s, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. would pen the terrible closing lines of the majority opinion: “Three generations of imbeciles are ...
May 8, 2024 · The court, in an 8–1 decision, upheld the law’s constitutionality. In the majority opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Buck was sterilized in 1927, and shortly therafter she was released from the institution.
