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Potter Stewart ( Jackson, 23 gennaio 1915 – Hanover, 7 dicembre 1985) è stato giudice associato della Corte suprema degli Stati Uniti d'America dal 1958 al 1981. Conservatore, fu spesso dissenziente rispetto alla maggioranza della Corte Warren.
Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1958 to 1981. During his tenure, he made major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.
The phrase was used in 1964 by United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to describe his threshold test for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio. In explaining why the material at issue in the case was not obscene under the Roth test, and therefore was protected speech that could not be censored, Stewart wrote:
Potter Stewart (* 23. Januar 1915 in Jackson, Michigan; † 7. Dezember 1985 in Hanover, New Hampshire) war ein US-amerikanischer Jurist und von 1958 bis Juli 1981 beisitzender Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof der Vereinigten Staaten .
Historical profiles documenting the personal background, plus nomination and confirmation dates of previous associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Potter Stewart.
Potter Stewart (born Jan. 23, 1915, Jackson, Mich., U.S.—died Dec. 7, 1985, Hanover, N.H.) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1958–81). Stewart was admitted to the bar in New York and Ohio in 1941 and after World War II settled in Cincinnati.
In 1985, upon the death of Associate Justice Potter Stewart, Woodward disclosed that Stewart had been the primary source for The Brethren. [1] The book begins with the 1969 exit of ailing Chief Justice Earl Warren from the Supreme Court after the U.S. Senate refused to allow President Lyndon Johnson to elevate sitting Associate ...
