U.S. v. Darby
Supreme Court decision
By: Harlan F. Stone
Date: February 3, 1941
Source: U.S. v. Darby, 312 U.S. 100 (1941). Reprinted in Kutler, Stanley, ed. The Supreme Court and the Constitution: Readings in American Constitutional History, 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984, 402–406.
About the Author: Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) was a professor and dean at Columbia Law School in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Calvin Coolidge (served 1923–1929) appointed Stone to the Supreme Court in 1925 after he served as attorney general. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (served 1933–1945) named him chief justice in 1941. Illness struck him suddenly in 1946, in the middle of delivering an opinion in Girouard v. United States, and he died of a cerebral hemorrhage later that night.
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