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4 days ago · In December 1989, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., an alumnus of both The College (1929) and the School of Law (1931), announced his intention to leave his personal and professional papers to Washington and Lee University School of Law in the care of the law library.
Jul 26, 2024 · A panel of judges found that 577 days in seclusion and two weeks in four-point restraints was far from the norm for an involuntarily committed patient. Joe Dodson / July 26, 2024. The Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Courthouse, home of the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Virginia.
Aug 6, 2024 · Now never-before-seen letters and memos show that behind the scenes at the court, Justice Lewis Powell, an influential jurist with an undeserved reputation for decency and moderation, used wildly racist code words on the court’s letterhead as he strenuously—and successfully—drove a decision in City of Mobile v.
6 days ago · This week we mark the 40th anniversary of the "Powell Memorandum," written by Lewis F. Powell Jr. just two months before he was appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
3 days ago · Critical race theory ( CRT) is an interdisciplinary academic field focused on the relationships between social conceptions of race and ethnicity, social and political laws, and media.
Aug 13, 2024 · In the book’s opening chapter, titled “The Road to Shamelessness,” Cohen traces the party’s rightward lurch back to Lewis F. Powell Jr., the attorney who crafted an influential 1971 memo for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It nudged corporate America to essentially seize control of the government, especially the judiciary, and to take ...
Jun 28, 2024 · The decade spanned by the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school desegregation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 will undoubtedly be recorded as the period in which the legal foundations of racism in America were destroyed.
