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A 5 page paper that provides a brief biographical sketch of Justice Stevens and his appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States. The paper includes examples that demonstrate Stevens is willing to be the lone dissenting vote on the Court or among the minority that promote an unpopular vote. Stevens was one of three who dissented from the Court's ruling to stop the manual recount of presidential election ballots in Florida. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: MM12_PGstevns.rtf
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one of three who dissented from the Courts ruling to stop the manual recount of presidential election ballots in Florida. Bibliography lists 5 sources. PGstevns.rtf JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS
, October, 2001 properly! John Paul Stevens was born on April 20, 1920 in Chicago,
Illinois. In 1941 Stevens graduated from the University of Chicago. His intention was to become a teacher. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy to serve during World War II and
served on a Naval code-breaking team for which he was awarded the Bronze Star. When he returned from the War, Stevens enrolled in Northwestern University School of Law, graduating in
1947 (Court TV Library, 1999; People for the American Way, 2001). He served as law clerk to Associate Justice Wiley B. Rutledge of the United States Supreme
Court during the 1947-1948 Court term. He practiced antitrust law and then went on to his own practice in Chicago, where he practiced until 1970. Because of his experience with
antitrust laws, he was selected as associate counsel on a House of Representatives subcommittee studying monopoly power in 1951. Later, between 1953 and 1955, Stevens became a member of the
Attorney Generals National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws (Court TV Library, 1999; People for the American Way, 2001). Stevens was also a member of the law faculty at both
Northwestern and Chicago Universities in the early 1950s. In 1969, he was selected to serve as general counsel for a special commission that had been appointed by the Illinois Supreme
Court to investigate the integrity of one of its judgments (Court TV Library, 1999). President Richard M. Nixon appointed Stevens to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh
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