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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

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He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers. Harlan also joined a unanimous court in 1889 in rejecting a challenge to the Chinese Exclusion Act. The back story.

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