The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888–1910Univ of South Carolina Press, 2012 M11 1 - 257 pages A study of the man who led the Supreme Court as the nineteenth century ended and the twentieth began, exploring issues of property, government authority, and more. |
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... charges of Populist and Progressive critics , the justices upheld most of the business regulations enacted by legislators . Fuller and his colleagues were suspicious of regulatory agencies , yet their decisions on the whole accommodated ...
... charges before a church tribunal deprived an individual of his property.27 Despite Fuller's argument, in January 1871 the Supreme Court of Illinois ordered that the injunction be dissolved. The court ruled that the ecclesiastical courts ...
... circulated a pamphlet, The War Record of Melville W. Fuller, which reviewed his speeches and voting pattern at the 1863 “peace” legislature. The pamphlet charged that Fuller was a copperhead - a northern sympathizer with.
... charges of professional misconduct concerning Fuller's handling of certain legal matters in which they had an interest . One set of objections , raised by John C. Dunlevy , a Chicago lawyer , related to two eminent domain proceedings ...
... charges against Fuller's character evaporated, and the complainants appeared to be disgruntled litigants seeking revenge. Still the Judiciary Committee did not take action on Fuller's nomination. It appeared that Edmunds hoped to stave ...
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Conservative Jurisprudence in the Age of Enterprise | |
Safeguarding Entrepreneurial Liberty | |
Defending the National Market | |
Civil Liberties Equal Rights and Criminal Justice | |
Issues of Government | |
Private Litigation | |
Betting on the Future | |