Word: holmeses
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In the marijuana cases, the high court relied primarily on a 60-year-old decision by Oliver Wendell Holmes that involved a South Carolina moonshiner who dumped illegal liquor in a field near his home. Holding that revenue officers could testify about the liquor, Holmes said that "the special protection...
Acting on a near forgotten law of 1969, the SLA sent tart notes to owners of ten of the Times's restaurants that did not have licenses. The letter ordered them to stop the practice of brown bagging on threat of fines or imprisonment for up to a year...
The upcoming primaries in Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania will provide a tougher test for Jackson. Northern blacks traditionally are less swayed by appeals from the black church, which has been the power plant of Jackson's campaign. But after his impressive showings on Super Tuesday and in Saturday...
For the Justice Department to throw its weight behind what is a largely spurious charge is nothing short of irresponsible. In a speech at Harvard earlier this week, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Carter, accused the Reagan Administration of "escalating the drumbeat" of reverse...
Fram now spends most of his waking hours behind the executive desk in the Review president's office, beneath stately portraits of Louis D. Brandies, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Class of 1861. Felix Frankfurter, and other eminent jurists.