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Following law school, Williams served as a law clerk to Judge Donald E. O'Brien of the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa. [1]He then worked from 1990 to 1992 as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division and was detailed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, 116 people have served on the Court. The length of service on the Court for the 107 non-incumbent justices ranges from William O. Douglas's 36 years, 209 days to John Rutledge's 1 year, 18 days as associate justice and, separated by a period of years off the Court, his 138 days as chief justice.
The table below ranks all United States Supreme Court justices by time in office. [C] For five individuals confirmed for associate justice, and who later served as chief justice—Charles Evans Hughes, William Rehnquist, John Rutledge, Harlan F. Stone, and Edward Douglass White—their cumulative length of service on the court is measured. The ...
Judges may require or allow artists to sit in a designated area or they may sit in general public seating. In some jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom [1] [2] and Hong Kong, [3] courtroom artists are not permitted to sketch proceedings while in court and must create sketches from memory or notes after leaving the courtroom. [2]
National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, 524 U.S. 569 (1998), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act, as amended in 1990, (20 U.S.C. § 954(d)(1)), was facially valid, as it neither inherently interfered with First Amendment rights nor violated constitutional vagueness principles.
G. Mennen Williams (1911–1988), associate justice and chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court; George Henry Williams (1823–1910), chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court; Harold P. Williams (1882–1963), associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; Hugh Williams (judge) (born 1939), judge of the High Court of New ...
Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid, 1991 WL 415523 (D.D.C. 1991). In Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Darden (1992), Justice David Souter used the Court's understanding of the term employee in Reid to influence the decision, applying the Reid reading to all cases where the term employee is not otherwise defined by the statute. [3]
Several current Supreme Court justices have also clerked in the federal courts of appeals: John Roberts for Judge Henry Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Justice Samuel Alito for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Elena Kagan for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the ...