#OTD Angelo Herndon's conviction for attempting to incite insurrection for organizing unemployed Black and white workers overturned, 5-4, on free speech & assembly grounds in Herndon v. Lowry (1937), an important precedent about the right to protest and my next book W. W. Norton & Company.

The National Heritage Lecture will be held on May 21, 2024 to Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education—A Lecture by the Judge Richard Gergel and will be draw from his book, Unexampled Courage.

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I’m happy to share that I’ll be joining the faculty at Georgetown Law as a professor of law with tenure this fall. I’ll also serve as faculty co-director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution (@GUConstitution). My family and I are excited for this next chapter!

ICS Seminar: Legal History of the Warren Court dlvr.it/T55WPf

Registrations are open for St. Louis area high school students to join The Supreme Court and My Hometown for the Fall 2024 cohort.

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Flood v Kuhn was heard by the US Supreme Court on 3/19/1972

The issues before the Court:
1. Was professional baseball’s reserve system subject to federal antitrust law? (no)

Was professional baseball subject to state antitrust laws? (no)

5-3 decision

#BaseballandtheLaw 60-77

#OTD March 18, 1963, Gideon v. Wainwright was decided.

Learn about the case at the Society and Street Law joint Landmark Cases website:

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#scotushistory

Some news:

I am really excited to announce that I will be joining the faculty at Georgetown Law starting this fall.

#OTD February 27, 1886, Hugo Black was born.

Appointed the the Supreme Court by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937, Associate Justice Black served until his retirement in 1971.

#scotushistory

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#OTD February 22, 1965, Felix Frankfurter died.

Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1939 by President Franklin Roosevelt, Associate Justice Frankfurter served until his retirement in 1962.

#scotushistory

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Honored to be part of this Balkinization symposium on Robert Post's magisterial two-volume history of the Taft Court. balkin.blogspot.com/2024/02/taft-p…

Honored to visit the Charleston, SC courtroom where Thurgood Marshall initially argued Briggs v. Elliott, one of school desegregation cases decided with Brown v. Board on May 17, 1954. #SCOTUS

Honored to talk with Jeffrey Rosen tonight at 6:30 pm New-York Historical Society about my book on Felix Frankfurter and role of #SCOTUS . Join us virtually or in person. nyhistory.org/programs/democ…

A very interesting legal discussion last night New York City Bar on judicial restraint and its fallacy with today’s #SCOTUS & the complicated legacy of Justice Felix Frankfurter. NYS Writers Institute New York State Bar Association Brad Snyder John Q. Barrett NYU Law

Join us tomorrow evening at 1830 New York City Bar or online for a Historical Society of the New York Courts program, 'Justice Felix Frankfurter and the Idea of Judicial Self-Restraint: Then and Now in Federal and State Courts.'
Historical Society of the New York Courts Brad Snyder
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#OTD November 15, 1882, Felix Frankfurter was born.

Appointed to the Supreme Court by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939, Associate Justice Frankfurter retired from the Court in 1962.

#scotushistory

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With the help of a prominent lawyer, you have a better shot than most at ending baseball’s antitrust exemption. A lot of people really want you to try to take your case all the way. But MLB might also pay you a lot of money to disappear.

What do you do?
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Authors of latest amicus brief filed to Supreme Court opposing MLB's antitrust exemption include Brad Snyder, who wrote 'A Well-Paid Slave'; and Garrett Broshuis, who led a $185 million lawsuit against MLB & started org that drove minor-league unionization supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/2…

#OnThisDay in 1958, a unanimous Supreme Court declined a Little Rock School District request to delay by more than two years the desegregation mandated by the Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board ruling.

Read #ConstitutionDaily : ow.ly/jKea50PHSGG

70 years ago today, #SCOTUS Chief Justice Fred Vinson died of a heart attack at the age of 63.

Justice Frankfurter (who, for lots of reasons, was no fan of Vinson’s) told two of his clerks that “this is the first solid piece of evidence I’ve ever had that there really is a God.”