Justice Louis D. Brandeis

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Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States human lawyer legal scholar progressive

Justice Louis D. Brandeis was a prominent early 20th-century U.S. Supreme Court justice known for his progressive jurisprudence, advocacy for privacy and free speech, and influential opinions on economic regulation and social justice.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States → human → lawyer → legal scholar → progressive →
advocated	antitrust enforcement → freedom of speech → regulation of large corporations → right to privacy → social and economic justice →
almaMater	Harvard Law School →
appointedBy	President Woodrow Wilson →
barAdmission	Kentucky bar → Massachusetts bar →
birthDate	1856-11-13 →
birthPlace	Louisville, Kentucky, United States →
burialPlace	Brandeis University campus, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States →
coAuthorOf	The Right to Privacy (Harvard Law Review article, 1890) →
coAuthorWith	Samuel D. Warren →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1941-10-05 →
education	Harvard Law School →
endTime	1939-02-13 →
era	Progressive Era →
ethnicGroup	Jewish American →
familyName	Brandeis →
fullName	Louis Dembitz Brandeis →
givenName	Louis →
graduatedWithHonors	Harvard Law School →
influenced	American privacy law → First Amendment jurisprudence → progressive legal thought →
knownFor	Brandeis Brief → advocacy of the right to privacy → defense of freedom of speech → opinions on economic regulation → progressive jurisprudence → social justice advocacy →
legalPhilosophy	judicial restraint → progressive reform → states as laboratories of democracy →
memberOf	Democratic Party (United States) →
namesakeOf	Brandeis University →
nominatedIn	1916 →
notableWork	Brandeis Brief in Muller v. Oregon → Muller v. Oregon brief → Olmstead v. United States dissent → Whitney v. California concurrence →
occupation	attorney → jurist →
positionHeld	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States →
religion	Judaism →
residence	Boston, Massachusetts, United States → Washington, D.C., United States →
spouse	Alice Goldmark Brandeis →
startTime	1916-06-05 →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Abrams v. United States ("Louis D. Brandeis") → United States v. Butler ("Louis Brandeis") →	dissentingOpinionBy
Louis D. Brandeis ("Louis Dembitz Brandeis") →	fullName
Gitlow v. New York ("Louis D. Brandeis") →	hasDissentBy
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age ("Louis Brandeis") →	influencedBy
Hammer v. Dagenhart ("Louis D. Brandeis") →	joinedByInDissent
Steward Machine Co. v. Davis →	joinedByInMajority
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. ("Louis Brandeis") →	majorityJoinedBy
Brandeis University ("Louis Brandeis") →	namedAfter
Woodrow Wilson administration ("Louis Brandeis") →	officeHolder
William O. Douglas ("Louis Brandeis") →	precededBy