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The Burger Court was the period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1969 to 1986, when Warren E. Burger served as Chief Justice of the United States.
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As chief justice, Burger was instrumental in founding the Supreme Court Historical Society and was its first president. Burger is often cited as one of the foundational proponents of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), particularly in its ability to ameliorate an overloaded justice system.
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Warren Burger was the 15th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, succeeding Earl Warren. He was nominated on May 23, 1969 by President Richard Nixon. (In an ironic twist, the Burger Court would essentially force Nixon to resign five years later by ordering the production of materials related to the Watergate scandal.)
Warren E. Burger was the 15th chief justice (1969–86) of the United States Supreme Court. After graduating with honours from St. Paul (now William Mitchell) College of Law in 1931, Burger joined a prominent St. Paul law firm and gradually became active in Republican Party politics.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Burger Court thrust itself directly into the watergate crisis, during Nixon's presidency. Even as the impeachment process was underway in Congress, the Supreme Court, bypassing the Court of Appeals, expedited its hearing of the question whether Nixon must turn over the Watergate tapes.
Significant Oral Arguments: The Burger Court. In 1996, the Supreme Court Historical Society appointed an Ad Hoc Committee of distinguished legal scholars and Supreme Court practitioners to determine the most significant oral arguments heard by the Supreme Court from 1955 until 1993.
