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The Justice who had written the Gobitis ruling in 1940 – Felix Frankfurter – strongly disagreed with how that precedent was being overturned in the Barnette ruling. Frankfurter reinforced his holding in Gobitis that those who disagree with a law should attempt to change it through the political process, rather than break that law due to ...
Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Austrian-born American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, during which he was an advocate of judicial restraint. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, immigrating to New York City at the age of 12.
Among the opinions Elman was involved in drafting during his clerkship was Frankfurter's dissent in the second Flag Salute case, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. [4] Elman and Frankfurter remained close friends; Elman would later recount that Frankfurter still regarded him as his clerk for years after Elman had joined the ...
I would suggest that information about Justice Frankfurter's dissent be added to this article. Frankfurter agreed substantatively with the Opinion of the Court, but wrote a lengthy dissent focusing on his beliefs regarding judicial restraint. Juansmith 07:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States restricting the religious rights of public school students under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Case history; Prior: Certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Certiorari, 306 U.S. 624, to review a decree which modified and affirmed a decree of injunction, 25 F.2d 127, in a suit brought by individuals, unincorporated labor organizations, and a membership corporation, against officials of a municipality to restrain alleged violations of constitutional rights of free ...
1931 Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 (1931) - represented Yetta Stromberg; 1932 Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45 (1932) - represented the Scottsboro Boys; 1933 United States v.
Mike Cicconetti (born 1951), judge, Lake County, Ohio; Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938), Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States; Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States; Henry Friendly (1903–1986), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit