Viewing Railroads Category (3) found:David J. Meyers: Book Review of Donald R. Durbin Jr., "The Bigger They Are...." (2000).Sometimes the best advice that a good lawyer can give the client is that the client has no case. This is as true today as it was over 100 years ago when William Burfening first came to a lawyer about a real estate claim.
Pierce Butler, "Federal Valuation of Railroads" (1919).Three years before he was nominated by President Harding to be an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, St. Paul lawyer Pierce Butler addressed a joint convention of the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Bar Associations on "Federal Valuation of Railroads." It is posted here. ... James J. Hill: "The Railroad: Legislative Regulation and Its Limits." (1910).In 1910, James J. Hill, the builder of a transcontinental railroad, published a collection of articles on aspects of American life titled "Highways of Progress." In one chapter, he expressed strong views on state and federal regulation of the nation's railways----he despised state regulators, prefe... |