Patterson v. Colorado
Supreme Court decision
By: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.; John Marshall Harlan; David J. Brewer
Date: April 5, 1907
Source: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., John Marshall Harlan, David J. Brewer Patterson v. Colorado. 205 U.S. 454 (1907). Available online at http://www.caselaw.lp.findlaw.com (accessed November 6, 2002).
About the Authors: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), a Union Army veteran, served on the Massachusetts Supreme Court for sixteen years. At age sixty-one he was appointed to the Supreme Court, where he served for thirty years.
John Marshall Harlan (1841–1935) served on the Court for thirty-four years, becoming known as "the Great Dissenter" because of his dissents in such cases as Plessy v. Ferguson.
David Brewer (1837–1910) served on the Supreme Court from 1889 until 1910. He was a...
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