Norris v. Alabama
Supreme Court decision
By: Charles Evans Hughes
Date: April 1, 1935
Source: Norris v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 587 (1935). Available online at http://www2.law.cornell.edu (accessed February 7, 2003).
About the Author: Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948), a conservative reformer, served as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1930 to 1941. Earlier in his career, he began working for a law firm in 1884 and later taught at Cornell Law School. He gained a reputation as an independent-thinking Republican when he headed several investigations of corruption in industries during the Progressive Era, a period when a vibrant antitrust movement sought to regulate corporations. Hughes was elected governor of New York in 1906 and served two terms. He served as an associate justice to the Supreme Court from 1910 to 1916. He ran for president...
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