The following is an excerpt from remarks delivered by Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin on receipt of the Fuld Award from the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation section on Jan. 29 at the state bar’s annual meeting. The award was presented by Eastern District Judge Jack B. Weinstein.

I take as my theme today how much the world has changed since Judge Stanley Fuld sat, with the greatest distinction, on the New York Court of Appeals. He began in 1946, the year I was born, and ended 27 years later in 1973, only because he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.

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