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Abe Fortas
Abe Fortas , 1910-82, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1965-69), b. Memphis, Tenn. After receiving his law degree from Yale in 1933, he taught there (1933-37) and also held a variety of government posts. He was (1942-46) undersecretary of the interior before entering private law... Read more |
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in re Gault
in re Gault , case decided in 1967 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault had been found a delinquent by an Arizona juvenile court and sentenced to the state industrial school for up to six years for having made allegedly obscene telephone calls to a female neighbor. Under the... Read more |
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Fortas, Abe
Fortas, Abe (b. Memphis, Tenn., 19 June 1910...1965–1969. The son of immigrant Jews, Fortas won scholarships to Southwestern College...Haven during the heyday of legal realism, Fortas learned to treat law as a tool of social policy... |
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Fortas Resignation
Fortas Resignation On 5 May 1969, Life magazine revealed that in 1966, Justice Abe Fortas had accepted a twenty‐thousand‐dollar honorarium...was twice indicted. The article suggested that Fortas might have given Wolfson legal advice and noted... |
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Nixon, Richard
...law. After Lyndon Johnson withdrew Abe Fortas's nomination to succeed Earl Warren as...Burger—both points clearly directed at Fortas, whose ethics had seen questioned and who regularly...interpreting the constitution rigidly.” When Fortas resigned in May 1969 because of ... |
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Gault, In Re
...decided 15 May 1967 by vote of 8 to 1; Fortas for the Court, black and White concurring, Harlan...theme boldly a year later, Justice Abe Fortas's opinion in Gault attacked the entire juvenile justice...the primary basis for the commitment. Fortas took the opportunity to ... |
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Thornberry, William Homer
...Johnson's planned elevation of Justice Abe Fortas to the chief justiceship to replace Earl Warren...1968, when President Johnson withdrew Fortas's nomination, eliminating the vacancy...was not implicated by the concerns about Fortas's liberal decisions and alleged ethical... |
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Nominees, Rejection Of
...suggested promotion of Associate Justice Abe Fortas to chief justice in 1968, only five...acted upon because of the failure of the Fortas promotion, and that by President Ronald Reagan...the LBJ‐sponsored promotion of Abe Fortas to the center chair was at least partly... |
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Judicial Ethics
...President John Kennedy, and Justice Abe Fortas was a regular confidant of President Lyndon...influence toward conformity. Justice Fortas was induced to resign largely as a result...private client while on the bench (see Fortas Resignation). The only written opinion... |
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Clark, Tom Campbell
...political scientist Akiba Covitz, who served as archivist for the papers of Justice Abe Fortas, suggests that Clark offered Johnson (through Fortas) his resignation from the Court in exchange for Ramsey's appointment as attorney general... |
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Guest, United States v.
...and decided on same dates as Guest, also by vote of 9 to 0; Fortas for the Court. These cases arose from incidents of violence connected...indictment against eighteen defendants in Price, Justice Abe Fortas concluded that the first of these Reconstruction‐era statutes... |
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Burger, Warren Earl
...became possible after Lyndon Johnson's nominee, Associate Justice Abe Fortas, failed to win confirmation. By the time Nixon focused attention on the vacancy (May 1969), Fortas had resigned from the Court following accusations of improprieties... |
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WHAT TOPPLED ABE FORTAS? POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY IS A DETECTIVE STORY.(Perspective)
...Byline: Christopher Lehmann- Haupt "FORTAS: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court...biography" of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas (1910-1981), Bruce Allen Murphy steps...so irresistibly in telling the story of Fortas' aborted appointment as chief justice... |
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Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice.
...comedy, is everything. In the end Abe Fortas did not have it. Nominated in 1968 by...be chief justice of the United States, Fortas arrived on Capitol Hill for his Senate...away from the liberal Democrats, of whom Fortas and the Supreme Court were symbols, towards... |
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Filibuster Precedent? Democrats Point to '68 and Fortas; But GOP Senators...
...Lyndon B. Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to be chief justice of the United States. "Fortas Debate Opens with a Filibuster," a Page...to call up the nomination of Justice Abe Fortas for Chief Justice." A New York Times story... |
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Spinning the Fortas filibuster.(EDITORIALS)
...the elevation of Associate Justice Abe Fortas to chief justice of the U.S. Supreme...Republicans reply that the filibuster against Fortas was bipartisan. Indeed, 19 Democrats...filibuster was launched on Sept. 25 only after Fortas refused on Sept. 13 to appear before... |
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Dishonest Abe; how LBJ's favorite Supreme Court justice became the prototype...
...rationalized or simply ignored. This is the Abe Fortas that emerges from the pages of Laura Kalman...interests and promote the public good. The Fortas story provides an inside perspective on...follows by just two years another lengthy Fortas biography, Bruce Allen Murphy's ... |
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Furor recalls Fortas case
...Lyndon B. Johnson to make his friend Abe Fortas chief justice of the United States. History...the conservative Rehnquist, the liberal Fortas was an associate justice when a vacancy...year at the age of 78. Johnson nominated Fortas on June 26, 1968, and named an old Texas... |
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Louis E. Wolfson, 95; Figured in Fortas Scandal
...resignation of U.S. Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas in 1969, and who was also the owner of...showed that Supreme Court associate justice Fortas had accepted a $20,000 fee from Mr...would have been a lifetime guarantee for Fortas and was widely seen as a bribe in the... |
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FORTAS mission need statement draft available. (Army unveils details of...
* FORTAS MISSION NEED STATEMENT DRAFT AVAILABLE...Observation Remote Target Acquisition System (FORTAS). The service is seeking industry comment...be useful in refining the requirement. FORTAS is an unmanned target acquisition system... |
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Lawyer Carolyn Agger Dies; Widow of Justice Abe Fortas
...widow of former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. Ms. Agger headed the tax practice group...class from Yale Law School. She married Fortas in 1935, while he was a member of the...Arnold & Porter as a partner in 1960. Fortas, a founder of Arnold & Porter, served... |
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`Jewish Seat' Empty Since Abe Fortas Left
...justice on the Supreme Court since the 1969 resignation of Abe Fortas. Jonathan Levine, Midest regional director of the American...Arthur Goldberg, appointed in 1962 by John F. Kennedy. Abe Fortas, appointed in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson. |
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