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Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. delivered a concurring opinion, taking future issue with any legal claims brought against state sodomy laws under the U. S. Eighth Amendment, where the conviction for acts of sodomy result in " cruel or unusual " punishments for those engaging in them: " is not to suggest, however, that respondent may not be protected by the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.
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* August 25 – Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American Justice of the Supreme Court ( b. 1907 )
* Justice Holmes and the ' Splendid Prisoner ' Anthony Lewis on Debs from The New York Review of Books
One example is the shooting of former Presiding Justice Lewis F. Wright and four of his sons in 1864, after being taken from their homes for " questioning.
In 1980, he had a memorable role as future Justice Abe Fortas, to whom he bore a strong resemblance, in the made-for-television film version of Anthony Lewis ' Gideon's Trumpet, opposite Henry Fonda in an Emmy-nominated performance as Clarence Earl Gideon.
The Justices divided, with four voting to end the system as invalid under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 without any need to reference the constitutional issue, and four voting to uphold affirmative action as constitutional ; Justice Lewis Powell cast the deciding vote, referencing the constitutional issue and holding that in some cases race could be deemed a valid factor in admissions to institutions of higher education.
* Justice of the Peace-Nathaniel Lewis, John Price, Amos Jones and Elisha Higby
Orange Lewis was a prominent farmer who later became Justice of the Peace, and then county treasurer.
Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, and Lewis Powell.
Perhaps most significantly, it set up a court system, with Arthur Lewis Sifton as the province's first Chief Justice.
It consisted of Chief Justice Sifton, mining executive Lewis Stockett, and miners ' union executive William Haysom.
* Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. 1929 Undergraduate 1931 Law School — Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, 1972-87.
It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and featured Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean, Robert Newton as Javert, Sylvia Sidney as Fantine, Debra Paget as Cosette, Edmund Gwenn as the bishop, Cameron Mitchell as Marius, Elsa Lanchester as Madame Magloire and James Robertson Justice as Robert ( Fauchelevent ).
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote the opinion for a unanimous court, joined by Justices William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell.
WCVB Channel 5 of Boston reported that court documents, released in early 2009, " show Department of Justice investigators concluded Lewis was responsible for the poisonings, despite the fact that they did not have enough evidence to charge him.
Chief Justice Burger and Justices Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, and William H. Rehnquist, each appointed by President Richard Nixon, dissented.
Unable to control the state's Supreme Court he removed Chief Justice Lewis Morris, replacing him with James DeLancey of the royal party.
With the ascension of the most conservative member of the court, William Rehnquist, to the position of Chief Justice, and the replacement of Warren Burger and the moderate Lewis Powell with conservatives Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, Brennan found himself more frequently isolated.
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. ( September 19, 1907 – August 25, 1998 ) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
In August 1971, prior to accepting President Nixon's request to become Associate Justice of Supreme Court, Lewis Powell sent the " Confidential Memorandum " with the title, " Attack on the American Free Enterprise System.
Justice Lewis Powell recused himself owing to his ownership of stock in Anheuser-Busch, which owned the Cardinals.
George Martin, formerly Chief Justice of Michigan and Solomon Lewis Withey, late United States District Judge.
The execution was scheduled for May 8, 1979 but U. S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., ordered a stay only three days before the scheduled date.
* Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
The court acquiesced, and the trial took place at the Nassau County Supreme Court before Justice Lewis J. Smith.
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* 2001 – In Washington, D. C., U. S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.
His action was challenged in court and overturned by the U. S. Circuit Court in Maryland ( led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ) in Ex Parte Merryman, 17 F. Cas.
** Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States ( b. 1872 )
* April 9 – James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State and Justice of the Supreme Court ( b. 1879 )
* October 11 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1946 )
Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did " right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.
* Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building ( Department of Justice headquarters )
Although the National Commission for Democracy ( NCD ) had existed as an agency of the PNDC since 1982, it was not until September 1984 that Justice Daniel F. Annan, himself a member of the ruling council, was appointed chairman.
As Chief Justice, Warren swore in President Dwight D Eisenhower in his second inauguration in 1957 and his successor John F Kennedy in 1961.
Zinn has also pointed out that the Justice Department under Robert F. Kennedy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, headed by J. Edgar Hoover, did little or nothing to stop the segregationists from brutalizing civil rights workers.
Michael A. Ross, “ Hill Country Doctor: The Early Life and Career of Supreme Court Justice Samuel F. Miller in Kentucky, 1816-1849 ,” The Filson History Quarterly, Vol.
Justice Samuel F. Miller dissented, but only because he believed the respondent was not entitled to the property under the acts passed by Congress and the President's pardons.
* F. Philip Carbullido, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Guam ; Chief Justice 2003-2008.
* Craig F. Stowers, Associate Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.
The Court's decision was nearly unanimous ; only Justice Harlan F. Stone dissented.
* George F. Moore ( judge ), Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court in 1867
In order to acquire Universal, Wasserman was forced to dissolve MCA's talent agency — which represented most of the industry's biggest names — by Robert F. Kennedy's Department of Justice, as owning both the movie studio and a talent agency would violate antitrust laws.
A CORE sign displayed as Robert F. Kennedy speaks to a crowd outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building | Department of Justice Building in June 1963
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