* 1886 – Hugo Black, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1971 )

In particular, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote in a dissent that " t is high time, in my judgment, to wipe out root and branch the judge-invented and judge-maintained notion that judges can try criminal contempt cases without a jury.

In the 1961 decision, Justice Hugo Black commented in a footnote, " Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.

Justice Hugo Black adopted Jefferson's words in the voice of the Court, and concluded that " government must be neutral among religions and nonreligion: it cannot promote, endorse, or fund religion or religious institutions.

Nevertheless, the Court's balance began to shift within months when Justice van Devanter retired and was replaced by Senator Hugo Black.

Sometimes vacancies arise in quick succession, as in the early 1970s when Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William Rehnquist were nominated to replace Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan II, who retired within a week of each other.

** U. S. Supreme Court associate justice Hugo Black, in a nationwide radio broadcast, refutes allegations of past involvement in the Ku Klux Klan.

* September 25 – Hugo Black, American Supreme Court Justice ( b. 1886 )

* February 27 – Hugo Black, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1971 )

For example, Alabama Klansmen like Hugo Black were among the foremost advocates of better public schools, effective Prohibition enforcement, expanded road construction, and other " progressive " measures to benefit poor whites.

By 1925, the Klan was a powerful political force in the state, as urban politicians such as J. Thomas Heflin, David Bibb Graves, and Hugo Black manipulated the KKK membership against the power of the " Big Mule " industrialists and especially the Black Belt planters who had long dominated the state.

Opinions by two long serving Supreme Court judges, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, indicate the extent to which corporate personhood is not an all or nothing doctrine, but rather relates to the purpose of government regulation and the underlying rights of the individuals making up the corporation.

( Hugo Black, dissenting, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson ( 303 U. S. 77, 1938 ).

* Hugo Black ( 1886 – 1971 ), born in Harlan, served as an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1937 until 1971

Justices Hugo Black and Wiley Blount Rutledge took no part in the discussion or decision.

Justice Hugo Black stated: By this time, four states had a minimum voting age below 21.

Warren realized his weakness and asked the senior associate justice, Hugo L. Black, to preside over conferences until he became accustomed to the drill.

Hugo Black and William O. Douglas led the opposing faction ; they agreed the court should defer to Congress in matters of economic policy, but felt the judicial agenda had been transformed from questions of property rights to those of individual liberties, and in this area courts should play a more activist role.

* Hugo Black, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 until 1971.

The late United States Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who often cited the works of John Lilburne in his opinions, wrote in an article for Encyclopædia Britannica that he believed John Lilburne's constitutional work of 1649 was the basis for the basic rights contained in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The final decision was announced on March 18, 1963 ; the opinion of the Court was delivered by Justice Hugo Black.

* Hugo Black

Announced on December 14, 1964, the opinion of the court was delivered by Justice Tom C. Clark, with concurring opinions by Justice Arthur Goldberg, Justice Hugo Black, and Justice William O. Douglas.

However, Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black, sitting as a circuit justice, ruled that the federal district court lacked jurisdiction, and that the question was for the Central Committee to decide.

In an opinion by Justice Stanley Forman Reed, which three other justices ( Chief Justice Vinson and Associate Justices Hugo Black, Robert H. Jackson ) joined, and with which Justice Felix Frankfurter concurred, the Court held that re-executing Francis did not constitute double jeopardy or cruel and unusual punishment.

Following graduation from Yale Law, Calabresi served as a law clerk for U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black from 1958 to 1959.

Associate Justice Hugo Black writes a brief yet notable opinion ( with Justice William Douglas joining ) in which he notes that while he concurs with the Court ’ s judgment and opinion, he would prefer to reverse the previous judgment on broader grounds.

* The " federal laws and treaties " that Associate Justice Hugo Black cites in his opinion refer primarily to the Japanese-American Treaty of 1911, which authorized Japanese in this country to lease and occupy land for residential and commercial purposes.

Associate Justice Hugo Black wrote a separate concurring opinion.

In a concurring opinion, Associate Justice Hugo L. Black notes that as per his previous dissents, he agrees that the Fourth Amendment ’ s prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizure is enforceable against the states.

Associate Justice William O. Douglas writes in his dissenting opinion that for the reasons stated by Justice Hugo L. Black in his dissent in Adamson v. California, he believes that the Fourth Amendment is applicable to the States.

* Hugo Black, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

* Hugo Black, U. S. Senator, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, ( 1937-1971 )

* Hugo Burnham, drummer for the English rock group Gang of Four and Associate Professor at the New England Institute of Art

CBS News engineers prepare a remote: Justice Hugo Black's 1937 denial of Klan ties

The unanimous opinion of the court was delivered by Justice Hugo Black of Alabama.

In his dissent in the 1938 case of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson, Justice Hugo Black wrote " in 1886, this Court in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, decided for the first time that the word ' person ' in the amendment did in some instances include corporations.

Justice Hugo Black dissented.

" Also, in Beauharnais v. Illinois, a 1952 U. S. Supreme Court decision involving a charge proscribing group libel, Justice Hugo Black alluded to the Pyrrhic War in his dissent: " If minority groups hail this holding as their victory, they might consider the possible relevancy of this ancient remark: ' Another such victory and I am undone.

Justice Hugo Black wrote an opinion that elaborated on his view of the absolute superiority of the First Amendment.

Justice Hugo Black, renowned civil libertarian and First Amendment absolutist, filed a short concurrence indicating his agreement with Justice William O. Douglas's longer opinion and pointing out that the per curiams reliance on Dennis was more symbolic than actual.

The decision of the case, written by Justice Hugo Black, found the case largely indistinguishable from the previous year's Hirabayashi v. United States decision, and rested largely on the same principle: deference to Congress and the military authorities, particularly in light of the uncertainty following Pearl Harbor.