Corrigan v. Buckley
Supreme Court decision
By: Edward Sanford
Date: May 24, 1926
Source: Sanford, Edward. Corrigan v. Buckley 271 U.S. 323. (1926). Available online at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&v... ; website home page: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com (accessed February 11, 2003)
About the Author: Conservative Justice Edward Sanford (1865–1930) was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1923 by President Warren Harding (served 1921–1923) after serving as a federal trial judge in Tennessee. He allied himself with Chief Justice William Howard Taft and, along with some of the other justices, spent his Sunday afternoons at the Chief Justice's home. One of his most well-known decisions held that states, in addition to the...
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