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    The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, frequently called the "court-packing plan", was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin...
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    Charles Evans Hughes (category Presidents of the American Society of International Law)
    That same year saw the defeat of the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, which would have expanded the size of the Supreme Court. Hughes served...
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  • West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (category 1937 in United States case law)
    saved nine" because it occurred during the debate over the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937. Elsie Parrish, a chambermaid working at the Cascadian...
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    election took place in the aftermath of the recession of 1937–38 and the defeat of the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 ("the court-packing plan"), and...
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  • on Rule 16(1) of the Working Procedures for Appellate Review to create additional procedures to deal with the amicus curiae briefs. Of the 11 briefs submitted...
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    Joseph T. Robinson (category 1937 deaths)
    alienating some of his colleagues with his autocratic style. In the midst of debate over the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, Robinson died due...
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    Owen Roberts (category Deans of University of Pennsylvania Law School)
    references the decision's possible role in the defeat of the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, which would have expanded the Supreme Court and thus...
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    regulations struck down on the basis of freedom of contract. Roosevelt proposed the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, which would have allowed him to...
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    early 1937, while the debate over the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 continued, the Supreme Court handed down its holding in the case of West...
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  • targeted as dominated by very old men by the proposed Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, whose enactment was allegedly averted by the switch in...
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    responded with an attempt to pack the court via the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937. On February 5, 1937, he sent a special message to Congress proposing...
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    constitutionality of such a division is unknown. In a 1937 letter (to Senator Burton Wheeler during the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill debate), Chief Justice...
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    responded with an attempt to pack the court via the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937. On February 5, 1937, he sent a special message to Congress proposing...
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    Frederick Harold Stinchfield (category Presidents of the American Bar Association)
    president of the ABA from 1936 to 1937. Stinchfield was most remembered for his ardent stance again President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Judicial Procedures Reform...
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    proposals, the president proposed the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 to add more members. The expansion of the Court, which never materialized...
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    eds., Reforming the Court: Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices (Carolina Academic Press, 2006), p. 415. Brian Opeskin, "Models of Judicial Tenure:...
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    economic policies, along with controversy over the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 (Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan). There were, in addition...
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    Stop Court-Packing Act (category Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress)
    United States Congress Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, often referred to as the "court-packing plan" Supreme Court of the United States "H.R...
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    Burton K. Wheeler (category Members of the Montana House of Representatives)
    many of his New Deal policies. He broke with Roosevelt over his opposition to the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, and also opposed much of Roosevelt's...
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  • Lochner era (category History of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    President Roosevelt's announcement of a legislative proposal to enlarge the Court. The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 would have allowed for the President...
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    longstanding ritual of baseball in which a guest of honor throws a ball to mark the end of pregame festivities and the start of the game. Originally...
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Supreme Court candidates (category Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt)
    his presidency was the failure of the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, popularly known as the court-packing bill, which sought to stack a hostile...
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    failure of Roosevelt's Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 (the "court-packing plan"), the onset of the Recession of 1937–1938, and a wave of strikes...
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    John E. Rankin (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi)
    1937, he became active in the Conservative Coalition that largely controlled domestic policy. Rankin supported the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of...
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    contrary to the idea of separation of powers. The reform was motivated by concerns that the historical mixture of legislative, judicial, and executive power...
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    Old Supreme Court Chamber (category Supreme Court of the United States)
    The bill (H.R. 7573) also created a "process to obtain a bust of Marshall ... and place it there within a minimum of two years." After the bill reached...
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    judicial philosophies; William Brennan and Antonin Scalia shared Catholic faith and a Harvard Law School education, but shared little in the way of jurisprudential...
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  • Executive Order 14023 List of executive actions by Joe Biden#2021 January 6 commission Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 "President Biden to Sign...
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    James Farley (category American people of Irish descent)
    the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 to "pack" the Supreme Court. In all other instances, however, he was continuously loyal and supportive of Roosevelt's...
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  • element of the New Deal legislation that had come before it. After winning re-election in 1936, Roosevelt proposed the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937...
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