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Harvey Gresham Hudspeth
Antebellum slave law addressed fugitive slaves and criminal offenses committed by masters against slaves and by slaves against masters. Moreover, slaves were both merchandise and personal property that fell under civil monetary statutes pertaining to sal...
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Harvey Gresham Hudspeth
The Pan-Electric scandal of 1886 grew out of a plot by prominent Southern Democrats to seize control of the fledgling telephone industry by filing suit in federal court to invalidate patents held by Alexander Graham Bell and Bell Telephone. The suit led ...
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Harvey Gresham Hudspeth
This paper examines the mystery behind the case of Pollock v. Farmers? Loan and Trust. Better known as the ?Income Tax Case,? the question of the legality of the nation?s first peacetime income tax came before the Supreme Court in March 1895. Initially d...
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Harvey Gresham Hudspeth
This paper deals with the evolution of the judicial interpretation of the term? interstate commerce? beginning with the enactment the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 and concluding with the Supreme Court?s US. v. Darby decision some 51 years later. As may...
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Harvey Gresham Hudspeth
One of the great ironies in constitutional history is the fact that the Supreme Court that Franklin Roosevelt labored so hard to construct lasted for such a short period of time following his death. Dying early in his fourth term in 1945, FDR?s supporter...
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