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Salt of the earth, conscience of the court : the story of Justice Wiley Rutledge
Title:
Salt of the earth, conscience of the court : the story of Justice Wiley Rutledge
Author:
Ferren, John M.
ISBN:
9780807828663
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Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
Physical Description:
xii, 577 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Kentucky and Tennessee -- Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina, New Mexico -- Colorado -- St. Louis : high standards and a "big heart" -- St. Louis : a public liberal -- Legal philosophy -- Iowa City : innovation and influence -- Iowa City : support for minorities, legal aid, and court-packing -- Roosevelt's first court vacancies : Van Devanter, Sutherland, Cardozo -- The Brandeis vacancy -- Court of Appeals years : adjustment and impending World War -- Court of Appeals years : judicial approach and outside interests -- The Byrnes vacancy -- The new justice -- Denaturalized citizenship, West Coast curfew, and Japanese-American internment -- First Amendment freedoms -- Acrimony in the court -- The Selective Service, price control, and agency review -- War crimes and military commissions -- A new chief, Jackson's blast from Nuremberg, and the striking mine workers -- A more seasoned justice, sharp divides over criminal procedure -- State courts, the Bill of Rights, and access to federal courts -- The commerce clause and equal protection -- The Justice's world view -- Last term -- Last days : the man and the Justice remembered.
Local Note:
Copy 2 - Gift - John D. Fassett.
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