Name the Supreme Court Justice who made the following remark to counsel during oral argument: “Are you sure? I have smoked them, and I am sure I am not a dude.”
Answer: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. This comment was made during oral argument in an antitrust case, in response to a lawyer’s effort to establish that there was no foreign competition in the cigarette business by asserting to the Justices that “nobody but dudes and fools smoke foreign cigarettes.” Source:
Bander, ed., Justice Homes Ex Cathedra, at page 201.)
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