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14 documents for Carpetbag Judges

- Carpetbag Judges
Colloquial term used to describe northern judges during the post-Civil War era who traveled to the South to serve on southern cou...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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- The Circuit
Lum rubbed the tiny red cheek, then opened her carpetbag, and took out two black cotton dresses and one brown wool skirt. White underclothes and black wool stockings went in another drawer, then she laid a straight-edge razor and some soap powder on the dresser top. [...] Lum unpacked a gingham apron. "Little girl, little girl, riding into town, take care, little girl, don't you fall down!" Lum spread her legs and Mae fell into the black corduroy hammock, giggling and whimpering at the same time.

... were designed for circuit preachers or judges but lately were used by transients looking for wor...
- Feminist Studies
- Vol. 35 Nbr. 3, October 2009
- Columbus-America Discovery Group, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; Harry G. John; Jack F. Grimm, Plaintiffs, v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company; Insurance Company of North America; Salvage Association; London Assurance; Alliance Assurance Company, Ltd.; Royal Exchange Assurance; Indemnity Marine Assurance Company, Ltd.; Marine Insurance Company, Ltd.; Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York, Claimants-Appellants, and the Unidentified Wrecked and Abandoned Sailing Vessel, Its Engines, Tackle, Apparel, Appurtenances, Cargo, Etc., Located Within a Box Defined By the Following Coordinates: Northern Boundary — 31 Degrees 37 Minutes North Latitude; Southern Boundary — 31 Degrees 33 Minutes North Latitude; Western Boundary — 77 Degrees 2 Minutes West Longitude; Eastern Boundary — 76 Degrees 57 Minutes West Longitude, (Believed To Be the S.S. Central America), in Rem, Defendant, Cigna Group, Commercial Union Assurance Compa..., 974 F.2d 450 (4th Cir. 1992)
... Before RUSSELL, WIDENER, and HALL, Circuit Judges. OPINION. "When Erasmus mused that `[a] common shi... person, while others carried it in carpetbags or trunks. Also, passenger gold could have been ch...
- Federal Circuits

- Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S. 167 (1961)
... of the United States, and all the judges, State and national, being sworn to support the Co... to dominate and set at naught the `carpetbag' and `scalawag' governments of the day," that it a...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- It's Lunchtime!
By Lorraine Eaton The Virginian-Pilot

... making lunch was evident as soon as the judges began unpacking the bags. The main event was a dua... reaching into Mary Poppins' bottomless carpetbag. "Wow! Lots of food!" Anna said. "It's my main mea...
- The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
- September 02, 2008
- An Earthquake in South Dakota?
Thomas comments on a proposed amendment to the South Dakota Constitution. The proposed state constitutional amendment would destroy the partnership between judicial independence and judicial accountability in South Dakota, one that now appears to have garnered a sufficient number of valid signatures to be placed on the ballot in November of 2006.

... for the purpose of determining whether judges civilly sued as a result of their judicial acts sh... is that, if successfully adopted in a carpetbag in South Dakota, it would receive a more enthusias...
- Judicature
- Vol. 89 Nbr. 4, January 2006
- A Man and His Cake
Even with his head in the sink, Steven Ciccone kept talking cake. While the hairdresser lathered his dark curls, Steven babbled on. Every syllable concerned the fantastic couture wedding cake taking shape in his mind. It had to be crazy good, better than anything he'd done before, different enough to win big at the 140th Salon of Culinary Arts in New York City, the annual competition of the country's oldest association of chefs.

...Like Mary Poppins with her carpetbag, it seemed that whatever her son needed - duct tap... after last year's birds-of-paradise the judges would expect it. "Vee must see zee flowers?" he sa...
- The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
- January 14, 2009
- 'The organic law of a great commonwealth': the framing of the South Dakota Constitution.
... relied heavily on Eastern and Midwestern judges and case law. (39) Hamlin Garland remembered that ...Weary of carpetbag territorial appointees and their collaboration wit...
- South Dakota Law Review
- Vol. 53 Nbr. 2, June 2008
- Austria's pre-war Brown v. Board of Education.
...The judges' strategy at this perilous historic moment can be ... era dominated by northern "Carpetbaggers." (277) The insolvency of some Republican-dominate...
- Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Vol. 32 Nbr. 1, December 2004
- L. Batlin & Son, Inc., Appellee, v. Jeffrey Snyder D/B/a J. S. N. Y. and Etna Products Co., Inc., Appellants., 536 F.2d 486 (2nd Cir. 1976)
..., VAN GRAAFEILAND, and MESKILL, Circuit Judges. OAKES, Circuit Judge:. Appellants Jeffrey Snyder ... five-inch wide base, on which sits his carpetbag. A coin may be placed in Uncle Sam's extended hand...
- Federal Circuits