Abe Fortas papers, 1935-1983 (inclusive), 1956-1982 (bulk).

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Abe Fortas papers, 1935-1983 (inclusive), 1956-1982 (bulk).

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The papers consist of Supreme Court materials, correspondence, writings, and photographs that document the various aspects of Abe Fortas's career as a law school professor, government official, lawyer in private practice, presidential advisor, patron and practitioner of the arts, public figure, and Supreme Court justice.

82.75 linear feet (203 boxes)

Yale University Library

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Yale University Library

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United States. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

Fortas, Abe

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Lawyer, judge; interviewee b. 1910; d. 1982. From the description of Reminiscences of Abe Fortas : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86100438 Abe Fortas was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1910. He received his undergraduate degree from Southwestern College at Memphis in 1930, and his law degree from the Yale Law School in 1933. Fortas taught at Yale from 1933 until 1938, and served concurrently in a series of New Deal posi...