"When the constitutionality of the Oregon ten-hour law for women was challenged, Florence Kelley committed the National Consumers League to defense. As Kathryn Kish Sklar has explained, NCL's research director, Josephine Goldmark, prepared a pathbreaking brief, of which only 2 pages consisted of traditional abstract legal reasoning, and over 100 pages offered sociological evidence. Her brother-in-law, the future Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, argued the case in the U.S. Supreme Court. Goldmark and Brandeis's innovation would come to be known as a "Brandeis Brief," and many others would later be modeled on it."415 Protecting Women Wage-Workers, Women's America, Refocusing the Past.
"When the constitutionality of the Oregon ten-hour law for women was challenged, Florence .Kelley committed the National Consumers League to defense. As Kathryn Kish Sklar has explained, NCL's research director, Josephine Goldmark, prepa,red a pathbreaking brief, of which only 2 pages consisted of traditional abstract legal reasoning, and over 100 pages offered sociological evidence. Her brother-in-law, the future Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, argued the case in the U.S Supreme Court. Goldmark and Brandeis's innovation would come to be known as a "Brandeis Brief," and many others would later be modeled on it."415 Protecting Women Wage-Workers, Women's America Refocusing the Past.