• The "Fifth Circuit Four" (or simply "The Four") were four judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit who, during the late 1950s...
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    The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (in case citations, 5th Cir.) is one of the 13 United States courts of appeals. It has appellate...
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    John Robert Brown (judge) (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
    United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1950s and 1960s, one of the "Fifth Circuit Four" pivotal in the...
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    Elbert Tuttle (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
    he was among the judges that became known as the "Fifth Circuit Four". At that time, the Fifth Circuit included not only Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas...
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  • John Minor Wisdom (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
    "Fifth Circuit Four", and a Republican from Louisiana, was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit during...
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  • Richard Rives (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
    Democrat among the "Fifth Circuit Four," four United States circuit judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the 1950s and 1960s...
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  • McCain and Joseph McNeil, who would become known as the A&T Four or the Greensboro Four, had purchased toothpaste and other products from a desegregated...
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  • filed a motion on behalf of the Lovings in Virginia's Caroline County Circuit Court, that requested the court to vacate the criminal judgments and set...
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    Benjamin Franklin Cameron (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
    as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1955 to 1964. The Fifth Circuit was a key court during...
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    Florida circuit courts are state courts and trial courts of original jurisdiction for most controversies. In Florida, the circuit courts are one of four types...
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    including law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia under Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, the faculty of Emory...
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  • Alabama House of Representatives and later as judge in the Third Judicial Circuit Court. During this time Wallace was known as a moderate on racial issues...
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    single-member districts.: 1006  The Courts of Appeals in the Fifth Circuit, Eleventh Circuit, and Ninth Circuit have either explicitly held that coalition suits are...
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    across state lines. Rulings by the 4th Circuit in 2020 and 9th Circuit in 2021 struck down in those circuits the portions of the law which prohibit "urging"...
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    to play, and Nepomniachtchi lost in the fifth round. Fabiano Caruana finished first in the 2023 FIDE Circuit, but had already qualified for the Candidates...
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  • of Jackson, Mississippi, et al., the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit rules the city's attempt to circumvent laws desegregating interstate...
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  • violating his Thirteenth Amendment rights. Rolleston noted that in 1944 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for the United States held that even if acts committed...
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    this amendment, Arkansas was the only one to repeal its poll tax; the other four retained their taxes. These were struck down in 1966 by the US Supreme Court...
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    Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, one of the Fifth Circuit Four Michael T. Cahill, Dean of Brooklyn Law School Roger...
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  • Sr. criticized the verdict. [citation needed] On April 27, 1967, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld the federal convictions of the...
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  • same-sex marriage unconstitutional and issued a 14-day stay, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay pending appeal on December 4. U.S. District...
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    Thurgood Marshall (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit)
    Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where he favored a broad interpretation of constitutional protections. Four years later, Johnson appointed him...
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  • Robert Smith Vance (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
    States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He...
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    Charles W. Pickering Sr., of Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit (continued)". Vote Smart.com. Archived from the original...
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    4.3% of those sixty five or over. John Robert Brown, one of the “Fifth Circuit Four” pivotal in the 1960s black civil rights movement, was born in Funk...
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  • programming. The term "fifth generation" was intended to convey the system as being advanced: In the history of computing hardware, there were four "generations"...
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    sued the university in late 1961. After months of obstruction by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Benjamin Franklin Cameron, Meredith appealed to the...
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    Priscilla Richman (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
    jurist serving as the chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She was previously a justice of the Supreme...
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  • scored a major court victory after the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit found that the city's Chief of Police and other officials of the city...
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    Northern District of Alabama Judge Seybourn Harris Lynne, and the fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Rives. On June 5, 1956, the District...
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