The Law Jack Madden and Harrison Arsis

Louis Brandeis ●Graduated Harvard Law School at the top of his class at the age of 20 ●Appointed to the Supreme Court by Woodrow Wilson in 1916 ○ Before this he was a private lawyer ●Was a lawyer for the people ●Helped develop a “right to privacy” ●Brandeis Brief

Why Brandeis was so important ●Helped develop a “right to privacy”, which meant that people had the right to be left alone if they wanted to. ○ Had to do with all the new technology (ex: photography) ●Wrote the Brandeis Brief, which said that it was important to take into account the facts of the case and not just rely on previous rulings. ○ This was the first time in American history that somebody thought rulings should be determined like this. It was because of the Muller v. Oregon case

Oliver Wendell Holmes Bio ●Born March 8, 1841 in Boston, Massachusetts. ●Graduated from Harvard College in 1861 ●Graduated from Harvard Law in 1866 ●Married Fanny Dixwell on June 17, 1872 ●Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1902

Holden v. Hardy ●Upheld Utah’s limiting of daily working hours or miners to eight

Lochner v. New York ●Strikes down a state law limiting the maximum number of working hours for bakers

Muller v. Oregon ●Limited the number of working hours of women in Oregon. ○ Was the reason for the writing of the Brandeis brief

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