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1. newrepublic.com › article › 155004The Shrinking Legacy of a Supreme Court Justice | The New ...

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   Oct 1, 2019 · Once upon a time, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was the great modern American jurist. The “Yankee from Olympus,” as Catherine Drinker Bowen’s 1944 biography called Holmes, was the first celebrity...

2. blogs.loc.gov › law › 2024Beyond the Bench: Insights into the Oliver Wendell Holmes ...

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   Feb 8, 2024 · In 1938, Congress established a nine-person Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Committee with representatives from the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and the United States Supreme Court.

3. blogs.loc.gov › law › 2024Reading SCOTUS: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his Black ...

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   May 6, 2024 · During his over three decades on the Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., developed a jurisprudence that echoed across the 20th century. In contrast with the dominant thought of the day, Holmes believed the legislature to be the expression of the public.

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     The new building will be home to the John Lewis Social Justice Academy at Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School.

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     Wendell Holmes Obituary - CO

     HOLMES, WENDELL Wendell L. Holmes, 75, died August 2, 2005 in Denver, Colorado. As a final gift, Wendell’s body will be donated to the University of Colorado for Alzheimer’s research. Wife, Carol, precedes Wendell in death. A son, Mike, his wife Patty ...

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     SCOTUS’s South Carolina Gerrymandering Decision Is More Proof They Don’t Make Justices Like They Used to

     The carefully cultivated conservative majority on the current court is blindly but steadily trying to push us back to the days when Oliver Wendell Holmes was on the bench.

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5. www.pbs.org › newshour › healthWhy you can thank Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. for doctors ... - PBS

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   Aug 28, 2020 · In the mid-19th century, doctors in elite teaching hospitals would unknowingly spread deadly bacteria to expectant mothers. Here's how Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. helped change that.

6. www.nytimes.com › 2019/11/09 › opinionOpinion | The Unlikely Birth of Free Speech - The New York Times

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   On Nov. 10, a hundred years ago Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes issued a remarkable opinion that gave birth to our modern understanding of free speech.

7. www.imdb.com › name › nm0392092Wendell Holmes - IMDb

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   Wendell Holmes was born on 17 August 1914 in Cheshire, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Zorro (1957), Leave It to Beaver (1957) and The Twilight Zone (1959). He was married to Adrienne Marden and Lois Holmes. He died on 27 April 1962 in Paris, France.

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   • Birth Place: Cheshire, Ohio, USA

   • Death Date: January 1, 1
   • Death Place: Paris, France

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   Is Wendell Holmes dead or still alive?

   • Wendell Holmes was born on 17 August 1914 in Cheshire, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Zorro (1957), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Leave It to Beaver (1957). He was married to Adrienne Marden and Lois Holmes. He died on 27 April 1962 in Paris, France. Mr. Herrick ...

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   Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr?

   • by Lincoln Caplan ’76 I n the spring of 1864, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was fighting in the Civil War as a Union Army captain. He had enlisted three years earlier, soon after the war began, when he was 20 and in his last term at Harvard College, in the class of 1861.

   A Law Day look at a new biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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   What did Oliver Wendell Holmes say about free speech?

   • On Nov. 10, a hundred years ago Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes issued a remarkable opinion that gave birth to our modern understanding of free speech. It was a complicated delivery. Despite its centrality to our culture today, the First Amendment in the early 20th century was largely a dead letter.

   Opinion | The Unlikely Birth of Free Speech - The New York Times

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   Did Wendell Holmes have a real name?

   • (1948-49) Radio: Appeared (billed as "George Seldon", because his actual surname would cause confusion with the Sherlock Holmes character) as "Dr. Watson" in "Sherlock Holmes" on MBS Radio Network. John Stanley played Holmes. He also played Beaver's English teacher in a later episode. Season 5 episode 11. When did Wendell Holmes die?

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9. www.harvardmagazine.com › 2019 › 04Justice Holmes, presented by Stephen Budiansky and Lincoln ...

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   A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.