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3 days ago · Justice William O. Douglas, writing for the court, stated that there is a “zone of privacy” within a “penumbra” created by fundamental constitutional guarantees, including the First, Fourth, and Fifth amendments.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · The dissents of Justices William O. Douglas (1898–1980) and Hugo Black (1886–1971) provide strong justifications for tolerating offensive speech, and warn of the dangers of censorship.
3 days ago · (The others were Justices Thurgood Marshall, William J. Brennan Jr. and William O. Douglas.) Overall, in divided cases argued in the last term, Democratic appointees voted for a liberal result 83% of the time and Republican ones 33% of the time a 50 percentage point gap.
4 days ago · Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. For Britannica’s detailed coverage of cases recently argued before the Supreme Court, see Major Supreme Court Cases from the 2023–24 Term.
3 days ago · William O. Douglas: 1939–75 F. Roosevelt Frank Murphy: 1940–49 F. Roosevelt Harlan Fiske Stone: 1941–46 F. Roosevelt James F. Byrnes: 1941–42 F. Roosevelt Robert H. Jackson: 1941–54 F. Roosevelt Wiley B. Rutledge: 1943–49 F. Roosevelt Harold H. Burton: 1945–58
3 days ago · The Warren Court (1962). Seated, from left to right: Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo L. Black, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Justices Felix Frankfurter and Tom C. Clark. Standing, from left to right: Justices Potter Stewart, John Marshall Harlan, II, William J. Brennan, and Byron R. White.
3 days ago · We include excerpts of Justice Black’s opinion for the Court. We omit Justice William O. Douglas’s concurring opinion and Justice Stewart’s dissent. Footnotes added by the editors are preceded by “Ed. note.”
