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Alan Morton Dershowitz (/ ˈ d ɜːr ʃ ə w ɪ t s / DURR-shə-wits; born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. [1] [2] From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993.
United States Attorney, Northern District of Texas, 1913–1917: Representative, Texas, 1917–1919: U.S. District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 1919–1951 Levi Woodbury: Secretary of the Navy, 1831–1834 Secretary of the Treasury, 1834–1841: Senator, New Hampshire, 1825–1831; 1841–1845
As Texas solicitor general, Cruz argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four. [50] He authored 70 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented 34 appellate oral arguments. [44] [48] [55] His nine appearances before the Supreme Court are the most by any practicing lawyer in Texas or current member of Congress. [56]
Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." [ 1 ] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States have equal protection under ...
At the time of his appointment as solicitor general, he was working as an adjunct professor at Houston's South Texas College of Law (1993–1995) and taught Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law (2001–2002) where he taught United States Supreme Court Advocacy.
Their 2–1 decision issued on June 8, 2000, ruled the Texas law was unconstitutional. Justice John S. Anderson and Chief Justice Paul Murphy found that the law violated the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment to the Texas Constitution, which bars discrimination based on sex, race, color, creed, or national origin. J. Harvey Hudson dissented. [34]
Philip Bobbitt was born in Temple, Texas, on July 22, 1948. [2] He is the only child of Oscar Price Bobbitt Jr (1918–1995) and Rebekah Luruth Johnson Bobbitt. Oscar Price Bobbitt Jr was the son of Oscar Price Bobbitt Sr (1892–1965) and Maude Wisner, a direct descendant of Henry Wisner of Swiss descent, the only delegate from New York to vote for the Declaration of Independence. [3]
Dick DeGuerin (born February 16, 1941, in Austin, Texas) is an American criminal defense attorney based in Houston, [1] [2] most notable for defending Tom DeLay, Allen Stanford, David Koresh, and Robert Durst. In 1994, DeGuerin was named Outstanding Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year by the State Bar of Texas Criminal Justice Section. [3]