Read the story Nov 13, 2009
These folks generally have tended to excoriate the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who in a 1971 case about contraceptives somehow found emanations of a privacy right within the pneumbras of other parts of the Constitution ... I''m also appalled that Cohen would identify the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas as William O''Douglas. (CBS News -- Evening News)
Gardner: Corporations shouldnt have rights as individuals Oct 12, 2009
Gardner: Corporations shouldnt have rights as individuals - Beverly, MA - Beverly Citizen. Gardner: Corporations shouldnt have rights as individuals. (Beverly Citizen, MA)
Could slow hiring indicate Stevens retirement? Sep 3, 2009
When he joined the court, he replaced the longest-serving justice, William O. Douglas, and would need to serve until mid-July 2012 to top that service record. He would surpass Holmes as the oldest sitting justice if he were to remain on the court until Feb. 24, 2011. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Kennedy to Become 156th Lawmaker Interred at Arlington Aug 29, 2009
Also, President William Howard Taft who served as Chief Justice of the United States is buried at Arlington, as are Chief Justices Earl Warren, Warren Earl Burger and William Rehnquist, and Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Potter Stewart, Thurgood Marshall, William O. Douglas, Arthur Joseph Goldberg, William Brennan Jr. and Harry Blackmun. Other public figures buried at Arlington include jazz musician Glenn Miller; Chicago Daily News Publisher and Secretary of the Navy William F. Knox; 19... (Roll Call)
Rev. Hudson column: Privacy gets swept up in the Net Aug 27, 2009
Justice William O. Douglas. President Obama, his wife Michelle, and his two girls, Sasha and Malia, are now five days into their first real extended vacation as the first family. (Dover Sherborn Tab, MA)
Doris Brin Walker, at 90; radical lawyer who battled anti-Communist hysteria in 1950s Aug 23, 2009
Justice William O. Douglas, in a dissent that was also signed by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Hugo Black, wrote that the blunt truth was that Ms. Walker was fired not for any misconduct but for her legitimate labor union activities or because of her political ideology or belief. During the 1950s she helped represent 14 clients who had been convicted under the Smith Act of advocating the violent overthrow of the government. (Boston Globe)
Should nature be able to take you to court? Jul 19, 2009
Serendipitously, Justice William O. Douglas had been slated to write the preface for an issue of the Southern California Law Review, and Stone had rushed his article into that issue, hoping that the justice would read it. The strategy worked: Douglas dissented, echoing Stone s thesis. (Boston Globe)
Canal seen as potential river of revenue Jul 19, 2009
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas opposed that plan. To make his case, he wrote an op-ed column that ran in The Washington Post on Jan. 19, 1954. (The Herald-Mail Online)
YESTERYEARS FOR THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009 Jul 16, 2009
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 67, was seen kissing his 23-year-old bride, Cathleen Curran Heffernan of Portland, Oregon, after their wedding last night in a Los Angeles suburb. The bride is a sociology student at Maryhurst College, a school for women, near Portland. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
First Rights: Are we ready for a post-racial society? Jul 15, 2009
In its widely anticipated decision in Ricci v. DeStefano -- the New Haven firefighters' case -- a majority of the Supreme Court evaded a significant opportunity to seriously question the constitutionality of the long familiar affirmative-action claims by groups and classes that they had been discriminated against by race, gender, et al. I agree with the late Justice William O. Douglas -- passionately opposed to discrimination in any form -- that the 14th Amendment guarantees "equal protection of... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Supreme Court In-Chambers Opinions: A Footnote to the Chrysler Case Jun 20, 2009
In one of the more colorful episodes, Rapp described how two lawyers, seeking an injunction in a First Amendment case in August of 1970, trudged six miles into the woods to make their case in person to Justice William O. Douglas, who was camping nearby. After hearing their argument, Douglas pointed to a tree stump and told the lawyers they could find his decision there the next day. (Law.com)
Sotomayor the Realist? Jun 16, 2009
The last avowed Legal Realist on the Court, William O. Douglas, left in 1975. Douglas famously slighted the appellate judge s chief task of providing clear reasoning to guide lower courts and lawyers, opting instead for fanciful explanations of individual outcomes that suited him at a given moment. (Human Events Online)
Sweet Justice May 30, 2009
That's precisely what happened in 1974, when Justice William O. Douglas had a stroke. In a titled "Mental Decrepitude on the U.S. Supreme Court," David Garrow reviewed 15 similar cases of justices who continued to serve on the high court while demented, addicted to drugs, or otherwise mentally incapacitated. (Slate)
Supreme Reforms May 24, 2009
In his last years, Oliver Wendell Holmes sometimes fell asleep on the bench; after a stroke in 1974, William O. Douglas addressed people by the wrong names and cast votes inconsistent with his previous views. Another issue is the irregularity of appointments: Nixon made four, while Carter made none. (Boston Globe)
In replacing Souter, Obama should look beyond courthouse May 12, 2009
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed eight justices, pointedly chose a mix of electoral politicians (Hugo Black, Jimmy Byrnes, Frank Murphy), New Deal administrators (Stanley Reed, Robert Jackson, William O. Douglas), and legal minds (Felix Frankfurter, Wiley Rutledge). Only Rutledge was an appeals court judge before joining the high court. (Boston Globe)
Another View: The best nominee? Surprise us May 9, 2009
Just a bit behind those three come the great defenders of the First Amendment, William O. Douglas and Hugo Black, although much of their most admired work was iconoclastic and delivered in dissent. Not one of these five justices served on the federal bench before joining the high court. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
The Liberals Are Snickering May 9, 2009
He fell far short of the liberals' conception of a progressive Supreme Court dissenter, to wit: a charismatic, outspoken, slightly outr; intellectual on the model of William O. Douglas. Souter has been, as The Washington Post puts it, notable for his "quirky independence in spurning the right." The operative word here is "quirky." It is not meant as a compliment. (Human Events Online)
KEDO host Phil Blair dies suddenly Apr 19, 2009
At PBS, the American Bar Association recognized his work on a documentary about William O. Douglas, the longest-serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Suzanne Blair said her husband always liked working behind the scenes in television and shied away from the spotlight. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Taxpayer protest scheduled in Cle Elum Apr 15, 2009
Another is scheduled at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Millenium Plaza in Yakima, across from the William O. Douglas Federal Courthouse. Nevill says it was former Seahawks coach Jack Patera, also a Cle Elum resident, who put the ball into play in the Upper County. (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
Hastings critical of higher deficit Apr 15, 2009
A second protest is set for 3-5 p.m. Wednesday at the Millennium Plaza in downtown Yakima across from the William O. Douglas Federal Courthouse. That day is the deadline for citizens to submit their annual federal tax return. (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
Rear Window Movie (1954) Apr 12, 2009
Grace Kelly can be seen reading the travel book Beyond the Himalayas by William O. Douglas (Doubleday, 1952). When Jimmy Stewart nods off, she switches to an issue of Harper's Bazaar. (Suite101.com)
Constitutional rights shouldnt be taken lightly Apr 4, 2009
As Justice William O. Douglas once wrote, "Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people The aim was to allow men to be free and independent, and to assert their rights against government.". That is the battle I have chosen. (Nogales International, AZ)
Free speech laws protect the KaiminFriday, March 20, 2009 Mar 21, 2009
As Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said in 1949, a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are or even stirs people to anger. (Missoulian, MT)
Justice Stevens Holds On to Key Role at High Court Mar 10, 2009
While Stevens has dismissed the notion, some friends theorize he hopes to remain on the Court into 2011, when he would break the record for longevity set by William O. Douglas, who served 36 years and seven months until Stevens replaced him in December 1975. In early 2011, Stevens would also surpass Oliver Wendell Holmes as the oldest sitting justice in history. (Law.com)
Welcome to the Florida Gay Bar Feb 10, 2009
In 1969, in the Supreme Court case of Lathrop v. Donohue, Justice William O. Douglas, by all assessments a liberal, warned that compulsory state bars would eventually become goose-stepping brigades bent upon compelling ideological conformity upon their members. Forty years later, that prediction has come true, in a state many have called Floriduh since Bush v. Gore. (Human Events Online)
Instead of stimulus, do nothing - seriously Feb 9, 2009
As the older, more conservative justices retired, the president replaced them with ardent New Dealers such as Hugo Black, Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, and William O. Douglas. The newly constituted court proceeded between 1937 and 1941 to overturn its anti-New Deal rulings, abandoning its traditional, narrow view of interstate commerce and giving the federal government carte blanche to spend, tax, and regulate virtually without limit. (Christian Science Monitor)
