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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Ind. Courts - "Judge Friedlander donates Supreme Court memorabilia to IU Maurer School of Law"
Here is the news release from Indiana University. The items donated include:
- 74 signatures of the U.S. Supreme Court justices who served from 1789 to the present
- A pleading by John Marshall in the case of Blackwell v. Sydon over a defaulted promissory note, dated Nov. 24, 1785
- A letter written by John Jay; a slip opinion for Heller v. New York signed by the entire 1973 court; and signatures of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roger Taney, Salmon Chase, Louis Brandeis, and many others
- An 1889 Currier & Ives print of President Benjamin Harrison and his cabinet, with appended signatures of Harrison and the cabinet members
- A 1963 letter from William O. Douglas declining an invitation to write an article for Teacher's College Journal, sent to Joseph R. Ellis at Indiana State College (now Indiana State University)
- A two-page letter written by Judah P. Benjamin, the first Jewish member of the U.S. Senate, who later was appointed attorney general, secretary of war, and secretary of state for the Confederacy.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 21, 2010 01:34 PM
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