Salt of the earth, conscience of the court : the story of Justice Wiley Rutledge / John M. Ferren.
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- PART I : PREPARATION, 1894-1926: Kentucky and Tennessee
- Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina, New Mexico
- Colorado
- PART II : LAW PROFESSOR AND DEAN, 1926-1939: St. Louis : high standards and a "big heart"
- St. Louis : a public liberal
- Legal philosophy
- Iowa city : innovation and influence
- Iowa city : support for minorities, legal aid, and court-packing
- Roosevelt's first court vacancies : Van Devanter, Sutherland, Cardozo
- The Brandeis vacancy
- PART III : JUDGE, 1939-1949: Court of Appeals years : adjustment and impending World War
- Court of Appeals years : judicial approach and outside interests
- The Byrnes vacancy
- The new justice
- Denaturalized citizenship, West Coast curfew, and Japanese-American internment
- First Amendment freedoms
- Acrimony in the court
- The selective service, price control, and agency review
- War crimes and military commissions
- A new chief, Jackson's blast from Nuremberg, and the striking mine workers
- A more seasoned justice, sharp divides over criminal procedure
- State courts, the Bill of Rights, and access to federal courts
- The commerce clause and equal protection
- The justice's world view
- Last term
- Last days : the man and the justice remembered.