Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870–July 9, 1938) was a distinguished American jurist who is remembered not only for his landmark decisions on negligence but also his modesty and philosophy.
Cardozo began his career in New York, rising to the post of Associate Judge and later Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, New York's highest court.
Cardozo's opinion of himself shows somewhat of the same flair as his opinions: In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity--please observe, a plodding mediocrity--for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870–July 9, 1938) was a distinguished American jurist who is remembered not only for his landmark decisions on negligence but also his modesty and philosophy.
Cardozo's ancestors were Sephardic Jews who immigrated to the United States in the 1740s and 1750s from Portugal via the Netherlands and England.
Albert Cardozo was himself a justice of the Supreme Court of New York (the state's general trial court) until he was implicated in a judicial corruption scandal, sparked by the Erie Railway takeover wars, in 1868.
Shortly after Cardozo was born, his father Albert was implicated in a judicial corruption scandal that was sparked by the Erie Railway takeover wars, in which parties contending for the control of the Erie Railway used the judicial system in a way that perverted the law.
Cardozo was appointed to a seat on the Court of Appeals in 1917, and was elected to that seat the same year.
Cardozo wrote a dissent suggesting that the formal distinct between production/commerce was untenable, because "the law is not indifferent to considerations of degree." The next year, in NLRB v.
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