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The campaign promise is a reference to a quote by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis that "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." [1] The well-received initiative initially faced technical hurdles in its implementation and had limited follow-through.
The law school's Louis D. Brandeis Society awards the Brandeis Medal. The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville opened in 1846 and was named for Justice Brandeis in 1997. The Brandeis University Law Journal , one of the country's few undergraduate law publications, launched in 2009.
Brandeis, dubbed the "people's lawyer", was a controversial figure for his challenging of monopolies, criticism of investment banks, his advocacy for workers' rights, and his advocacy for protecting civil liberties. [7] [8] He was regarded as a "trust buster". [4] Brandeis was among the nation's most noted Progressive reformers.
6. "The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen." Louis Brandeis, American Lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Bill Clinton “Hillary and I mourn the passing of President Jimmy Carter and give thanks for his long, good life,” Clinton, the country's 42nd president, said in a statement on Sunday.
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The Brandeis brief consisted of more than 100 pages, only two of which were devoted to legal argument. [3] The rest of the document contained testimony by medics, social scientists, and male workers arguing that long hours had a negative effect on the "health, safety, morals, and general welfare of women." [4] [5]
Brandeis harshly criticized investment bankers who controlled large amounts of money deposited in their banks by middle-class people. The heads of these banks, Brandeis pointed out, routinely sat on the boards of railroad companies and large industrial manufacturers of various products, and routinely directed the resources of their banks to ...