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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Morris_ErnstMorris Ernst - Wikipedia

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   Co-author or contributor. References. External links. Morris Ernst. Morris Leopold Ernst (August 23, 1888 – May 21, 1976) was an American lawyer and prominent attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

   • Occupation: Attorney
   • Known for: Civil liberties litigation

   • Born: Morris Leopold Ernst, August 23, 1888, Uniontown, Alabama, U.S.

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3. press.uchicago.edu › ucp › booksThe Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade

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   Samantha Barbas. A long-overdue biography of the legendary civil liberties lawyer—a vital and contrary figure who both defended Ulysses and fawned over J. Edgar Hoover. In the 1930s and ’40s, Morris Ernst was one of America’s best-known liberal lawyers.

4. aeon.co › essays › the-story-of-morris-ernst-whoThe story of Morris Ernst who defeated America’s obscenity ...

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   Sep 12, 2023 · He is the author of The Nervous Liberals: Propaganda Anxieties from World War One to the Cold War (1999) and Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution (2021). Edited by Sam Dresser. 3,500 words. Syndicate this essay. Upon its publication in 1922, critics agreed that James Joyce’s Ulysses was the masterpiece of the age.

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   Who was Morris Ernst?

   • Morris Ernst (August 23, 1888 – May 21, 1976) was an American lawyer and prominent attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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   Where did Morris Ernst live?

   • Ernst kept a summer home on Nantucket, Massachusetts, and enjoyed sailing small boats. He died at home in New York City on May 21, 1976. He was survived by his son, both daughters, and five grandchildren. Morris Ernst's papers are housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

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   Who is Ernest Morris?

   • Your Society has a new chairman, \r \r Ernest Morris, and one of the first tasks of his reign will be to superintend \r \r changes necessary to the financing of our society. The AGM authorised the Committee to introduce membership subscriptions\r \r should it become necessary.

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   Who was Ernst Ernst & what did he do?

   • While the ACLU was deeply involved in promoting what the historian Leigh Ann Wheeler describes as ‘sex as a civil liberty’, Ernst was the architect of decisive trials from the late-1920s to the beginning of the war, and his firm did much of the work pro bono.

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6. www.buffalo.edu › magazine-2020 › morris-ernstMorris Ernst – Civil Liberties Pioneer - Baldy Center ...

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   Sep 16, 2020 · Morris Ernst was general counsel for the ACLU between 1927 and 1954. He was very influential in free speech law; specifically, literary censorship. Ernst was involved in many important cases, most famously, the Ulysses case. He legalized that novel, which had been banned as obscene in the United States.

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   Jun 1, 2021 · In the 1930s and ’40s, Morris Ernst was one of the best-known liberal lawyers in the United States. An eminent attorney and general counsel of the ACLU for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against literary and artistic censorship.

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   The University of Chicago Press. June 2021. Civil liberties lawyer Morris Ernst, Class of 1909, waged many battles in the courtroom, fighting against censorship, arguing for reproductive rights, advocating for unions and seeking protections for sexual expression and public speech.

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   Administrative Information. Repository: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Biographical Sketch. One of the most influential civil liberties lawyers of the twentieth century, Morris Ernst championed cases that expanded Americans' rights to privacy and freedom from censorship.