Cardozo forebears were numbered among the founders of Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest … peculiar rele of the judge in the American scheme. They have three grandchildren: Twins Lucy and Joshua Rosenblut, born May 26, 2004, and Elliotte (Ellie) Isla Cardozo, born July 19, 2016. Benjamin N. Cardozo High School is a public high school in Bayside, Queens of New York City, United States, and is operated by the New York City Department of Education. In a lawsuit involving the Society of NY Hospital, Justice Benjamin Cardozo ruled : “Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body, and a surgeon who performs an operation without his patient’s consent commits an assault.” But few American physicians were subjected… Cardozo was elected three times to the firm's executive committee, and co-chaired its litigation department from 1987 to 1991. Among their children was a daughter Nell and fraternal twins, Benjamin (future U.S. Supreme Court justice) and Emily, 11 years younger. [2] Cardozo resumed the practice of law until his death in 1885. Quotations by Benjamin N. Cardozo, American Judge, Born May 24, 1870. Michael A. Cardozo (born June 28, 1941) is an American lawyer. [1], Cardozo became a justice in 1864 of the Supreme Court of New York, that state's trial court. New Jersey where Judge Cardozo was summering, and inquired how he was spending his time. Justice Cardozo: A Common Law Judge on a Public Law Court.” California Western Law Review , vol. The scandal led to the creation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and to Cardozo's resignation from the bench in 1872. Judge Cardozo elsewhere has quoted Chesterton’s remark that the most important thing about a man is his philosophy. CARDOZO, BENJAMIN NATHAN. Albert Cardozo served as Vice President and trustee of Congregation Shearith Israel and Benjamin celebrated his bar mitzvah there. He also previously served as Chair of the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors and the Fund for Modern Courts, a non-partisan citizen organization devoted to improving New York State courts. The scandal led to the creation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and Albert's resignation from the bench. His great grandfather's first cousin was United States Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was a New York state court judge, an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, and an influential legal scholar.. Cardozo was born May 24, 1870, in New York City, the youngest son in a family of six children. He was appointed Chief Judge by Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald to fill the vacancy left by retired judge Shackley F. Raffetto in April of 2012. For it was not merely the language of playful deference which made Cardozo always speak of Holmes as "the Master." Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938) was born of Jewish parents in New York City. Cardozo was nominated by President Herbert Hoover on February 15, 1932, to replace Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. They have two children: Hedy (born November 9, 1967 who is married to Michael N. Rosenblut) and Sheryl (born December 25, 1970 who is married to Adi Diner). In the New Deal period under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cardozo usually sided with the liberally inclined justices Louis D. Brandeis and Harlan Fiske Stone. At more than one occasion, he proved his fitness levels over and beyond his normalcolleagues. Justice Benjamin Cardozo wrote in the Court's opinion: Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body; and a surgeon who performs an operation without his patient's consent commits an assault for which he is liable in damages. 17, no. Cardozo was elected chief judge of his court and served with distinction. The family lived a well-mannered, upper-class life, the kind that might have been depicted in an Edith Wharton novel. Born in 1870, Benjamin Cardozo was the son of Judge Albert Cardozo and Rebecca Nathan. [citation needed], Long active in civic affairs Cardozo presently serves as Chair of the New York State Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation. [2], Michael A. Cardozo was born on June 28, 1941 in New York City to Lucile and Harmon Cardozo. By 1866, Cardozo was working on behalf of Tammany Hall's William M. Tweed ring. Among the top 100 law schools, only three schools are younger than Cardozo, which graduated its first class in 1979. The judiciary is the system of courts that interprets, defends and applies the law in the name of the state.The judiciary can also be thought of as the mechanism for the resolution of disputes.