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1. Interview with former Michigan Supreme Court Justice John B. Swainson

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Part 1: Michigan Supreme Court Justice John B. Swainson discusses his educational background, serving in all three branches of Michigan government, his election to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1970, and his first case on the Court, People vs. Jondreau, which dealt with Native American fishing rights. Swainson also talks about the Joe Smeekens case, his colleague Justice Gene Black, the ramifications of Roe vs. Wade in Michigan, the issue of compensation for lawyers when representing indigent clients, and the famous marijuana possession case of political activist and White Panther Party founder, John Sinclair. Swainson notes that the stated date of the interview is incorrect and that the actual date is October 18. Part 2: Michigan Supreme Court Justice John B. Swainson discusses "Parochi-Aid" school funding, billboard restrictions, drug prosecutions, the case of People vs. Matish, the Detroit Police Officers' Association vs. City of Detroit and his involvement with their arbitration after his court term, the election of judges, the geographic dispersal of judges, the impact of the creation of the Michigan Court of Appeals in 1964, and televising trials. He also talks about the importance of preserving judicial history, the career of William A. Fletcher, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the portraits of former Justices, and his view of the function of the judiciary in the state of Michigan.
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1990-10-01T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
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Interviews with Michigan State Supreme Court Justices

2. The law of literature, reviewing the laws of literary property in manuscripts : books, lectures, dramatic and musical compositions : works of art, newspapers, periodicals, &c. : copyright transfers, and copyright and piracy : libel and contempt os court by literary matter, etc : with an appendix of the American, English, French, and German statutes of copy right / by James Appleton Morgan ...

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2 v. ; 25 cm.
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University of Michigan. Libraries
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New York :: J. Cockcroft & Co., and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library

3. The law of literature, reviewing the laws of literary property in manuscripts : books, lectures, dramatic and musical compositions : works of art, newspapers, periodicals, &c. : copyright transfers, and copyright and piracy : libel and contempt os court by literary matter, etc : with an appendix of the American, English, French, and German statutes of copy right / by James Appleton Morgan ...

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2 v. ; 25 cm.
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University of Michigan. Libraries
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New York :: J. Cockcroft & Co., and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library

4. Atrocious judges. Lives of judges infamous as tools of tyrants and instruments of oppression. Compiled from the judicial biographies of John lord Campbell. With an appendix, containing the case of Passmore Williamson. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Hildreth.

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432 p. 19 cm., Passmore Williamson was imprisoned for contempt of court in refusing to answer to a writ of habeas corpus, issued by the U.S. District court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, commanding him to produce the bodies of Jane, Daniel and Isaiah Johnson, slaves of John H. Wheeler. He petitioned the Supreme court of Pennsylvania for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied., and Introduction.--Roger Le Brabancon.--Robert Tresilian.--Thomas Billing.-- John Fitzjames.--Thomas Fleming.--Nicholas Hyde.--John Brampston.--Robert Heath.--Robert Foster.--Robert Hyde.--John Kelynge.--William Scroggs.--Francis North.--Edmund Saunders.--George Jeffreys.--Robert Wright.--Appendix.
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University of Michigan. Libraries
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New York;, Auburn,: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library