Description
Stanley F. Reed (1884--1980), born in Minerva, served two terms in the Kentucky General Assembly, was appointed by Herbert Hoover as general counsel for the Federal Farm Board and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and served as solicitor general of the United States (1935--1938) and as a United States Supreme Court justice (1938--1957).Colleagues, relatives, and law clerks discuss Reed's work habits; the duties of a law clerk at the United States Supreme Court; Jones versus the City of Opelika, Alabama; the Securities and Exchange Commission versus Chenery Corporation; civil rights; Brown versus the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; Reed's ideology and judicial philosophy; Reed's relationship with Fred M. Vinson; Morgan versus Virginia; Reed and the Washington social scene; Sweatt versus Painter; McLaurin versus Oklahoma State Regents; McCarthyism; Reed's opinion of Plessy versus Ferguson; Partmar Corporation versus Paramount Pictures; Florida ex Rel. Hawkins versus the Board of Control (Black Bass case); the United States versus Du Pont de Nemours and Company et al. (Cellophane case); Shields versus the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company; and United States versus the Appalachian Electric Power Company.
Number of Interviews 22
Total Hours 24
Subjects
Anti-communist movements--United States ; Antitrust law--United States ; Appalachian Power Company--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Chenery Corporation ; Civil rights ; Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States ; Electrification--Appalachian Region, Southern ; Employer's liability--United States ; Ferguson, John H., judge--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Freedom of religion--United States ; Hydroelectric power plants--Appalachian Region, Southern ; Industrial safety--Law and legislation ; Insider trading in securities--Law and legislation ; Jones, Rosco--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Judges--United States ; Kentucky. General Assembly ; Law ; Law clerks--United States ; Law--United States ; Lawyers ; Legislators ; Liability for railroad accidents--United States ; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 ; Morgan, Irene, 1917-2007--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Paramount Pictures--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Partmar Corporation--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Plessy, Homer Adolph--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Politicians ; Politics, Practical ; Reed, Stanley Forman, 1884-1980 ; Segregation in transportation--Law and legislation--Louisiana ; Segregation in transportation--Law and legislation--United States ; Segregation--Law and legislation--United States ; Shields, W.A.--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Topeka (Kans.). Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc. ; United States. Federal Farm Board ; United States. Securities and Exchange Commission--Trials, litigation, etc. ; United States. Supreme Court ; United States. Supreme Court--Cases ; United States--Constitution--1st Amendment ; United States--Politics and government ; United States--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953 ; Virginia--Trials, litigation, etc. ; Washington (D.C.) ; Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs
Tags
Segregation, Integration, Public Policy, Education