Authors: John M. Harlan

Supreme Court
1877–1917

Plessy v. Ferguson

Source: 163 U.S. 537; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537. Justice BROWN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Chief Justice Fuller and Justices FIELD, GRAY, SHIRAS, WHITE, and PECKHAM. [Homer Plessy] was a

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1917–1929

Lochner v. New York

Source: 198 U.S. 45; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/198/45. Justice PECKHAM delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Chief Justice FULLER and Justices BREWER, BROWN, and McKENNA. …The indictment … charges that [Mr.

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The Judiciary
1877–1917

Plessy v. Ferguson

Source: 163 US 537 (1896), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537. MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. . . .It is also suggested by the learned counsel for

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