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| | Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
 | | Admitted to the bar in 1853, he served in the Civil War as a colonel in the Union army until 1863, when he became attorney general of Kentucky. |
 | | He upheld the police power of the states, dissented in the civil-rights cases (1883) and the income-tax case (1894), and argued that the court had no right to read the word unreasonable into the Sherman Act in the decisions against the Standard Oil and American Tobacco trusts. |
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