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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902...
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/hoʊmz/; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the...
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes may refer to: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), poet, physician, and essayist, father of the judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr...
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  • conditions for the use of the concept of "law." When realists such as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. pointed out that individuals embroiled in the legal system generally...
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  • Schenck v. United States (category Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
    World War I. A unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., concluded that Charles Schenck, who distributed flyers to draft-age...
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    law was Holmes's pioneer enterprise.,, Hughes further writes: " To me, Mr. Justice Holmes is a prophet of the Law, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was graduated...
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    The Oliver Wendell Holmes House is a historic house at 868 Hale Street in the Beverly Farms section of Beverly, Massachusetts. Built c. 1880, this modest...
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    The Common Law is a book that was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1881, 21 years before Holmes became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
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    Holmes Sr. and grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Holmes was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. He was the son of David Holmes and Temperance Bishop. He...
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  • was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – Supreme Court Justice James Russell Lowell – poet, critic, editor...
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  • Australia Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932 Richard Winn Holmes (1923–1999)...
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    Washington, D.C., society belle. She attracted many admirers including Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Robert Todd Lincoln; and stage actor and presidential assassin...
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  • Buck v. Bell (category Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
    decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory...
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  • for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise is a committee established by Congress in 1955 after the late Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. bequeathed...
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  • Goddard and was used in 1927 by United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in his ruling in the forced-sterilization case Buck v. Bell, 274...
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    Hoover appointed Cardozo to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Cardozo served on the Court until his death in 1938, and formed...
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes High School is a public high school that is part of the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas. It was established...
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  • D. Roosevelt) Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., poet and essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Barrett Wendell, American academic...
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  • paraphrasing of a dictum, or non-binding statement, from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United...
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  • The Magnificent Yankee (1950 film) (category Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
    book Mr. Justice Holmes by Francis Biddle. The story examines the life of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The film was directed...
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    tenure on the Supreme Court, Hughes often joined Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in voting to uphold state and federal regulations. Hughes served...
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    Clear and present danger (category Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
    Amendment freedoms of speech, press, or assembly. Created by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to refine the bad tendency test, it was never fully adopted and...
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  • character was named for United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Oliver is an elementary-school age child with an incredibly advanced...
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  • Four dissenting justices rejected that view, and the dissent of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in particular, became one of the most famous opinions in U.S...
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  • The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (category Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
    family history and early life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future U.S. Supreme Court justice, then describes how Holmes, James, Peirce, Dewey, and others...
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    Jackson and related to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Amelia Lee Jackson: wife of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Associate Justice of...
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    and regulatory law also give rise to considerable complexity. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. cautioned that "the proper derivation of general principles in...
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  • least to 1837. It was used in 1904 by US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Its validity has since been questioned and dissenting variations...
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    friendship with and influence upon future Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who was his classmate at Harvard and his comrade during the war...
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  • Prediction theory of law (category Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
    The prediction theory of law was a key component of the Oliver Wendell Holmes's jurisprudential philosophy. At its most basic, the theory is an attempted...
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