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justice: suppose three years from now, the lots, more valuable than that two lot singly. each lot would be worth $100,000, that these bigger lots are worth $500,000. the county wants a fire station and it takes a lot e. what do they pay for it? they should pay compensation for the taking of lot e. justice kennedy: under your hypothetical, owners would stand to lose $300,000, and your answer? i do not think so. justice kennedy: singly they are worth $100,000 each. what is the amount the county has to pay to take lot e? the analysis must begin justice kennedy: and in your view that is lot e only. they pay $100,000, that is it. the land owner would have the burden of proving there are additional damages they should be compensated for justice kennedy: there are no severance damages. you re taking the entire parcel. they should be paid compensation for lot e justice kennedy: in your syrian in your theory, land owners would lose money and the state would be ....
by chief justice warren burger with the notion of promoting public understanding of the history of the court. it does that in many ways through lectures like these, through the publication three times a year of the journal of supreme court history, and through the acquisition of portraits of the justices for display in the building. i would like to specially thank the society for its efforts to assist my predecessor and the curator s office of obtaining of all 19 of the prior courts which have now been obtained. the officers of the court here, i would like to thank the society for the all the efforts they give to all of us. we are joined by three distinguished scholars for discussion of the civil war and its impact on justice oliver wendell holmes. the moderator of the program will be professor brad snyder. is an assistant professor of law at the university of wisconsin law school. padis the author of well- slave. he is currently at work on the society of truth and ot ....
good evening, everyone, and welcome to the supreme court. it s great to see so many people here for the supreme court historical society s second lecture of the 2014 leon silverman lecture series. the society was formed in 1974 by chief justice warren berger with the notion of promoting public understanding of the history of the court. and it does that in many ways, through lectures like these, through the publication three times a year of the journal of supreme court history, and through the acquisition of portraits of the justices for display in the supreme court building. i d also like to especially thank the society for its efforts to assist my predeces r predecessor, bill suter, and the curator s office in obtaining the port raraits of all prior 1 clerks of the court, which have now been obtained for the court. and on behalf of all the officers of the court, i d like to thank the society for all of the efforts they give to all of us. this evening we re joined by ....
lawyer in frederick county, maryland, taney had defended jacob gruber, an anti-slavery methodist minister accused of disturbing the peace and inciting rebellion. and in the process, taney had cited the declaration of independence in support of his anti-slavery views and had actually called slavery a blot on our national character. the author of the unjust judge made much of this type of change of heart, describing taney as failing to live up to his early ideals as well as those of the nation s founders. in hid analysis, he said that african-americans, contrary to taney s assertion, had been included in the political community at the time of the founding. but more than an academic criticism of taney s reasoning in the dred scott came in t, t unjust judge constituted a rhetorical assault on the character of the nation s fifth chief justice. the author excoriated taney as a malevolent old man engaged in the most nefarious of purposes, a man has untrue to the principl ....
display in the building. i would like to specially thank the society for its efforts to assist my predecessor and the curator s office of obtaining the portraits of all 19 of the prior courts which have now been obtained. on behalf of all the officers of the court here, i would like to thank the society for the all the efforts they give to all of us. we are joined by three distinguished scholars for discussion of the civil war and its impact on justice oliver wendell holmes. the moderator of the program will be professor brad snyder. he is an assistant professor of law at the university of wisconsin law school. he is the author of well-paid slave. he is currently at work on the society of truth and other progressives that lived in the dupont circle rowhouse and formed a political salon in the 1910 s. he has written extensive articles about justice holmes. tonight s analysts are james mcpherson and g. edward white. james mcpherson is the george henry davis professor em ....