Stanley Howells Fuld (August 23, 1903 – July 22, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the

New York Court of Appeals The New York Court of Appeals is the supreme court, highest court in the Judiciary of New York (state), Unified Court System of the New York (state), State of New York. It consists of seven judges: the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeal ...

from 1967 to 1973.

Life

Born in

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, New York City, Fuld was the son of Emanuel I. Fuld (a

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of the ''

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'') and Hermine (Frisch) Fuld. He graduated from

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in 1923, and received an

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from

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in 1926. Fuld engaged in private practice until 1935, when he was hired as an investigator by

Thomas E. Dewey Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 47th Governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. He was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in 1944 and ...

, Special Prosecutor of Rackets in Manhattan and a schoolmate of Fuld's at Columbia. Fuld's specialty was developing new theories to prosecute racketeers, including

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and James J. Hines, the

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district leader. In November 1937, Dewey was elected District Attorney of New York County, and appointed Fuld Head of the Indictment Bureau. From 1939 to 1943, he was Chief of the Appeals Bureau. Afterwards he resumed his private practice On April 25, 1946, Fuld was appointed by Dewey, now Governor, a judge of the

to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George Z. Medalie. In

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, he was elected on the Republican ticket to a 14-year term, and re-elected on the Republican and Democratic tickets in

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. In

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, he was elected unopposed Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals. In that capacity, after the

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was brutally suppressed in 1971, Governor

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invited him and four other state judges to appoint a citizens' committee to investigate the entire affair. He retired from the bench at the end of 1973 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years, and returned to private practice. Judge Fuld authored the majority opinions in ''Auten v. Auten'' and ''

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'', which are widely considered to be landmark cases in American choice of law revolution.

Personal life

On May 29, 1930, Fuld married Florence Geringer (d. 1975). After her death, he married Stella Rapaport. He died at his home in

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, Florida.Stanley Fuld, Former Judge, Is Dead at 99

References

Sources

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