But how are their decisions to be known?

Dimock, a graduate of Yale University in 1911 and Harvard Law School in 1914, was born on January 4, 1890 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He practiced with the firm later known as Hawkins, Delafield & Wood from 1918 to 1941, leaving practice in 1941 to become a lecturer at Yale Law School until 1946. From 1943 to 1945 Dimock served as State Reporter, publishing 17 volumes in the first series: five of the New York Reports, five of the Appellate Division Reports, and seven of the Miscellaneous Reports. In 1945 he was appointed chairman and member of the Appeals Board established under the Contract Settlement Act of 1944, which adjudicated disputes between World War II contractors and government agencies, deciding 260 cases between 1945 and 1951. Dimock was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Truman on July 11, 1951 and served until 1970, except for one day of service in 1983, hearing an immigration matter at the age of 93. In 1953 he presided over the second round of the Smith Act trials. Judge Dimock served for 45 years as a trustee of the Miss Hall's School in Massachusetts, where four of his five daughters had graduated. In 1953 Dimock became a member of the board of managers of the Havens Relief Fund Society, a position his friend and colleague Judge Learned Hand occupied for the previous 30 years. From 1956 to 1970 he served as the Society’s vice-president. He was active in local, state, and national bar associations, and was a member of the House of Delegates and Board of Governors of the American Bar Association. Judge Dimock died on March 17, 1986.
Leland Coss was born on August 31, 1898, the only son of the Albany County Sheriff. He attended public schools in Albany before attending Columbia University and later returned home to obtain his law degree at Albany Law School. Upon admission to the bar, Coss worked as a legal editor for the Edward Thompson Company at Northport, where he gained important experience in legal publishing. Coss subsequently returned to Albany, joining the law firm of Wollard & Coogan. In 1929, he began his employment in the State Reporter’s office under J. Newton Fiero. Coss was appointed State Reporter in 1945, succeeding Edward J. Dimock. For the next eight years, Coss published 13 volumes of the New York Reports, 14 volumes of the Appellate Division Reports, and 20 volumes of the Miscellaneous Reports. During his 24-year tenure at the Law Reporting Bureau, Coss was prominent in his church and in the community as a member of several organizations, including the local Masonic lodge and the Westland Hills Improvement Association. He was married to the former Margaret A. Naughton. Coss died on September 5, 1953 in Albany.
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