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For the 107 non-incumbent justices, the average length of service was 6,203 days (16 years, 359 days). [1] [A] The longest serving justice was William O. Douglas, with a tenure of 13,358 days (36 years, 209 days). The longest serving chief justice was John Marshall, with a tenure of 12,570 days (34 years, 152 days).
On 2 August 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its ruling on the Hours of Service litigation brought by the American Trucking Associations and Public Citizen. The Court upheld the 2011 Hours of Service regulations in all aspects except for the 30-minute break provision as it applies to short haul drivers.
The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
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The jury deliberated for five hours and 36 minutes, and the verdict came after a nine-day trial. Judge Mrs Justice Cutts told Saadi: "You have been convicted of the most serious of crimes."
Great lengths of rope were provided to allow the sounding of deep oceans, and of Italian hemp alone she carried a total length of 181 miles (291 km). Nares was given command of the Challenger Expedition , [ 7 ] a recognition of his experience in this field, but also of his scientific approach to surveying and exploration.
Amtrak restored the Empire Service brand with the June 11, 1972, timetable, and added individual train names on the May 19, 1974, timetable. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As was done on the Northeast Corridor with NortheastDirect , individual train names for New York-Albany and New York-Niagara Falls service were dropped on October 28, 1995, and replaced with ...
November 18, 1952 (): Utilizing the recently better understood phenomenon of the Polar jet stream, Pan Am launched non-stop passenger service from Tokyo-Haneda to Honolulu aboard a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, [83] covering a great-circle distance of 6,202 kilometres (3,854 mi; 3,349 nmi) in 11 hours 30 minutes.