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Justice Hugo Black And His Law Clerks: Match-Making And Match Point, Todd C. Peppers
Justice Hugo Black And His Law Clerks: Match-Making And Match Point, Todd C. Peppers
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Like other Justices on the Supreme Court, Justice Black hired law clerks to assist with the work of the Court. Each year, his law clerks would assist in reviewing cert. petitions, doing legal research, and editing opinion drafts. These job duties, however, were only one dimension of the Black clerkship. As the Justice himself once remarked to a law-clerk applicant, “I don’t pick my law clerks for what they can do for me, I pick my law clerks for what I can do for them.”
Till Death Do Us Part: Chief Justices And The United States Supreme Court, Todd C. Peppers, Chad M. Oldfather
Till Death Do Us Part: Chief Justices And The United States Supreme Court, Todd C. Peppers, Chad M. Oldfather
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In this Essay, we identify and explore an additional institutional difficulty, which bridges these last two components of the proposed Act. Prior commentary has chronicled the phenomenon of Justices serving beyond the point at which they are able to perform their duties. It has also addressed the unique powers and responsibilities of the Chief Justice, with some arguing that the administrative aspects of the role should be divorced from the effectively life tenure associated with a position on the Court. We wish to highlight a connection. The unique powers and responsibilities of the center chair may make Chief Justices even …
Isaiah And His Young Disciples: Justice Brandeis And His Law Clerks, Todd C. Peppers
Isaiah And His Young Disciples: Justice Brandeis And His Law Clerks, Todd C. Peppers
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It cannot be said that Louis Dembitz Brandeis has suffered from a lack of scholarly attention. Brandeis is considered to be one of the most influential Justices in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, and scores of books and law-review articles have been written about Brandeis the lawyer, the political insider, the Zionist, and the Justice. A case can be made, however, that history has not fully recognized the important and lasting contribution that Brandeis made to the development of the institutional rules and norms surrounding the Supreme Court law clerk, an oversight that this essay seeks to rectify.
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.: Breaking The Color Barrier At The U.S. Supreme Court, Todd C. Peppers
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.: Breaking The Color Barrier At The U.S. Supreme Court, Todd C. Peppers
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The purpose of this essay is twofold: It will endeavor to succinctly summarize the important events of Coleman’s life and professional career, while making the argument that these achievements were as groundbreaking in the legal community as Robinson’s were to baseball. Admittedly, looking to our national pastime is hardly an original literary maneuver; The myriad similarities and links between baseball and the law have offered rich material for many legal writers.2 Moreover, this article does not wish to diminish Coleman’s accomplishments by comparing them to a mere “game.” By drawing upon the sixtieth anniversary of Robinson’s debut, my hope is …
Law Clerk Influence On Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical Assessment, Todd C. Peppers, Christopher Zorn
Law Clerk Influence On Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical Assessment, Todd C. Peppers, Christopher Zorn
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Here, we undertake the first effort at assessing the existence and extent of law clerk influence in the U.S. Supreme Court. Drawing upon original survey data on the political ideology of 532 former law clerks, we evaluate the extent to which both the Justice's personal policy preferences and those of his or her law clerks exert an independent influence on the Justice's votes. While our results are preliminary, they nonetheless support the contention that--over and above "selection effects" due to Justices choosing like-minded clerks--clerks' ideological predilections exert an additional, and not insubstantial, influence on the Justices' decisions on the merits. …
The Return Of Reasonableness: Saving The Fourth Amendment From The Supreme Court, Melanie D. Wilson
The Return Of Reasonableness: Saving The Fourth Amendment From The Supreme Court, Melanie D. Wilson
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Although there is no recipe for defining Fourth Amendment reasonableness, the Supreme Court produces its most anomalous Fourth Amendment outcomes when it decides "mixed" questions of reasonableness, assessing issues that turn on how ordinary, prudent citizens think and behave. The Court treats these mixed issues, combinations of fact and law, as if they raise purely legal questions. But mixed issues are more complex and require someone to determine historical facts, apply those facts to principles of Fourth Amendment law, and consider the totality of the circumstances, including taking into account community and cultural influences. The Supreme Court will take its …
The "Persuasion Route" Of The Law: Advertising And Legal Persuasion, Sarah C. Haan
The "Persuasion Route" Of The Law: Advertising And Legal Persuasion, Sarah C. Haan
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Persuasive commercial messages--advertisements--dominate our experience of persuasion in contemporary American life. In the past quarter century, the commercial landscape has witnessed significant change in the volume, styles, and strategies of advertising. In particular, this Note argues that modern advertising contains little information about products and services, and that rational processing of information has become less important to consumer decisionmaking. At the same time, advertising research shows that consumers do not seek out or use product information contained in advertisements, and that less-informative advertising may actually be more persuasive than advertising containing a lot of information. This Note argues that changes …
Webster V. Doe, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Vermont V. Cox, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Eleventh Circuit Conference, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Eleventh Circuit Conference, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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Zant V. Stephens, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Barefoot V. Estelle, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Barefoot V. Estelle, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
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Goldwater V. Carter, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Goldwater V. Carter, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
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Decoteau V. District County Court For The Tenth Judicial District, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Decoteau V. District County Court For The Tenth Judicial District, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
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The Level Of Supreme Court Advocacy, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
The Level Of Supreme Court Advocacy, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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Spence V. Washington, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Spence V. Washington, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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Kaplan V. California, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Kaplan V. California, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
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Mattz V. Arnett, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Reception And Dinner Honoring Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Reception And Dinner Honoring Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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Reception and Dinner Honoring Lewis F. Powell Jr. hosted by Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, The Marshall Room and Grand Hall of The Hotel John Marshall, Richmond, Virginia. Event took place following Justice Powell's confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States but before he was sworn-in as Associate Justice.