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Abstract
Justice Murphy is commonly regarded as having been a libertarian activist. He was not highly regarded as a Justice during his lifetime and this opinion prevails today. Here Professor Howard sees Justice Murphy during his early years on the Supreme Court as a man of indecision rather than an uncompromising libertarian. Through an examination of first amendment cases between 1940-42, the author finds that Murphy displayed a common reaction to the responsibilities of a new Supreme Court Justice which differed from most only in intensity.
Recommended Citation
Woodford Howard,
Justice Murphy: The Freshman Years,
18 Vanderbilt Law Review
473
(1965)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol18/iss2/4
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