Garcia v. Munnerlyn

OPINION OF THE COURT

Charles J. Markey, J.

A few years prior to his appointment to the United States Supreme Court in 1916, Louis Dembitz Brandéis (1856-1941) stated:

*690“We who are lawyers have a special obligation, and that is to make our law efficient. The disgrace that has come to the law, the discredit, the disrespect which has come to the law, is because it is inefficient, and because we make rules and we do not provide any machinery for enforcing them.” (Alfred Leif, The Social and Economic Views of Mr. Justice Brandéis, at 402 [Vanguard Press 1930] [quoting excerpts of Brandeis’s testimony…