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Holme
Holme, a common place-name, usually from OScand. holmr ‘island, dry ground in marsh, water-meadow’: Holme Cambs. Hulmo 1167. Holme Cumbria. Holme 1086 (DB). Holme N. Yorks. Hulme 1086 (DB). Holme Notts. Holme 1203. Holme Chapel Lancs. Holme 1305. Holme Hale Norfolk. Holm 1086 (DB),... Read more |
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Clear and Present Danger
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER An early standard by which the constitutionality of laws regulating subversive expression were evaluated in light of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. Justice oliver wendell holmes jr., writing for the U.S. Supreme Court in schenck v. united states, 249... Read more |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (jurist)
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841-1935, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1902-32), b. Boston; son of the writer Oliver Wendell Holmes. He served (1861-64) with distinction in the Civil War, took a law degree at Harvard (1866), and began practice in Boston in 1867. Holmes... Read more |
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Subversion
Subversion Since the late eighteenth century, federal and state governments have attempted to use legal methods, including statutory prohibition, legislative investigation, and criminal prosecution, to suppress what political majorities of the time deemed to be efforts to overthrow or undermine... Read more |
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Sociological Jurisprudence
Sociological Jurisprudence In a series of law review articles published between 1905 and 1923, Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School criticized the prevailing assumptions of what he called “mechanical jurisprudence.” He denied that just legal results would be produced by logical... Read more |
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Schenck v United States
Schenck v. United States case decided in 1919 by the U.S. Supreme Court. During World War I, Charles T. Schenck produced a pamphlet maintaining that the military draft was illegal, and was convicted under the Espionage Act of attempting to cause insubordination in the military and to obstruct... Read more |
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Legal Realism
LEGAL REALISM The school of legal philosophy that challenges the orthodox view of U.S. jurisprudence under which law is characterized as an autonomous system of rules and principles that courts can logically apply in an objective fashion to reach a determinate and apolitical judicial decision.... Read more |
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Hanya Holm
Hanya Holm Hanya Holm (born Johanna Eckert; 1893-1992) successfully moved from Germany to America, from modern dance to the Broadway musical in a unique rise to prominence. Hanya Holm was born Johanna Eckert on March 3, 1893, in Worms, a small town near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. She... Read more |
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Pittsfield
Pittsfield city (1990 pop. 48,622), seat of Berkshire co., W Mass., between mountain ranges, on branches of the Housatonic River; inc. as a town 1761, as a city 1889. The city is the metropolis of the Berkshire resort area. Once a farming community, it developed industrially in the 19th cent. as a... Read more |
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Abrams v. United States
ABRAMS V. UNITED STATES In Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616, 40 S.Ct. 17, 63 L. Ed. 1173 (1919), the U.S. Supreme Court applied the clear and present danger test in upholding the conviction of five anti-war protestors, who had been charged with sedition for distributing pamphlets criticizing... Read more |
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Beacon Hill, From Boston Blueblood to a Bit Bizarre
...New York, lives on Beacon Hill, amid a clutter...bucks." Beacon Hill was long...decades, Beacon Hill became...Beacon Hill Times, who has...Hill resident Oliver Wendell Holmes, a physician...Supreme Court justice. But ... |
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Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes.
...sampling of Justice Oliver Wendell...American life, whatever...wounded three times, shaped...Monroe. Holmes was a legal...American." Holmes's article...an Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is an...Justice from Beacon Hill, which ... |
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A Justice For All Seasons
THE JUSTICE FROM BEACON HILL The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes By Liva Baker HarperCollins. 782 pages, $29...John P. Frank about this hefty biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935). Liva Baker has certainly... |
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BOOKMAKING
...Tomorrow at 7 p.m., Oliver North will autograph copies...Baker, author of "The Justice From Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes," at the Union Club...A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard." Winner... |
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George's confession: '2001' is favorite flick And chocolate ice cream isn't...
By this time, anyone interested...quarterlies; Time and America...best day of my life, besides the...a difficult time negotiating...Baker, "The Justice from Beacon Hill"; The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes"; Octavio... |