Yates v. U.S
Supreme Court decision
By: John Marshall Harlan
Date: June 17, 1957
Source: Harlan, John Marshall. Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957). Available online at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&v... ; website home page: http://www.findlaw.com (accessed March 5, 2003).
About the Author: John Marshall Harlan (1899–1971) was grandson and namesake of another Supreme Court justice, who served from 1877 to 1911. Harlan attended Princeton University as a Rhodes scholar and earned a law degree at New York University. In 1955 he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Dwight D. Eisenhower (served 1953–1961). Harlan believed that federal courts should not interfere unnecessarily in state and local...
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