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	Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Powell was a partner for over a quarter of a century at Hunton, Williams, Gay, Powell and Gibson, a large Virginia law firm, with its primary office in Richmond (now known as Hunton and Williams).
		Powell was involved in the development of Colonial Williamsburg, where he was both a trustee and general counsel.
		Powell compiled a decidedly moderate record on the Court, cultivating a reputation as a swing vote with a penchant for compromise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Franklin_Powell,_Jr. (1370 words)

	Lewis F. Powell Jr., Who Became the Quiet Centrist of the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 90
		Lewis F. Powell, Jr., the retired Supreme Court justice who brought a voice of moderation and civility to an increasingly polarized court during his 15-year tenure, died Tuesday at the age of 90.
		Powell was one of the country’s most prominent corporate lawyers, with practical legal skills polished by decades of experience, when his nomination to the court by President Nixon in 1972 gave him an unexpected second career.
		Powell was a member of the majority in Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 decision that gave women the constitutional right to obtain abortions, and he did not waiver in his support of that principle.
	www.sodomylaws.org /bowers/bonews03.htm (3835 words)

	Lewis Powell
		Lewis F. Powell, Jr., was born on November 19, 1907, in Virginia, the son of Lewis F. and Mary (Gwathmey) Powell.
		Powell moved to Richmond, Virginia, and after practicing with one law firm for a couple of years, he joined a firm that would become Hunton and Williams, today one of the larger law firms in the United States.
		Powell was a centrist whose vote was often crucial on a regularly divided Court.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/powell.htm (349 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Powell Dies at 90
		Powell was a proud son of his native state of Virginia and a leader in the legal profession nationwide before his appointment by Richard M. Nixon to the court at age 64.
		Powell, who served from 1972 to 1987, greatly valued continuity in the law and believed that once a course had been set, it was dangerous to veer off: "Stability and moderation are uniquely important to the law," he once wrote.
		Powell also was the key vote in 1985 when the court rejected New York's policy of sending public school teachers into religious schools to teach disadvantaged students, and he voted with the majority when it struck down moment-of-silence laws intended to bring back prayer to the nation's public schools.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/stories/powell082698.htm (2399 words)

	Former Supreme Court Justice Powell dies at 90
		Powell, who served on the court from 1972-87, also concurred in the landmark 5-4 decision upholding the constitutionality of a Georgia law banning sexual relations between homosexuals.
		Powell concluded the university had failed to demonstrate that it was advancing a substantial state interest by discriminating against Bakke.
		Powell was a highly successful private attorney in Richmond, Va., and a former president of the American Bar Association when President Nixon tapped him for the high court in 1971 to succeed Hugo Black, who had retired.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/08/26/powell_2-1.html (951 words)

	Former Supreme Court Justice Powell Dead At 90 - Aug. 25, 1998
		Powell cast controlling votes when the court first upheld the concept of affirmative action in the Bakke case in 1978 and when it upheld state anti-sodomy statutes, a vote he said he later regretted.
		Powell cited concern for his health when he retired from the court in October 1986, and said it was "one of my worst moments.
		Powell was already 64 when he became a justice, but his views evolved while on the court.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/25/obit.powell/index.html (655 words)

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		Enter Lewis Powell Few are aware of the critical role played in the political power shift rightward by a prominent Richmond attorney and community leader, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., at the very threshold of a distinguished career on the U.S. Supreme Court.
		Powell was to be a leading catalyst in politicizing key sectors of the business establishment; and, he would make a major, if perhaps inadvertent, contribution to the strategy and tactics of the emerging new right.
		Powell's blueprint focused on four broad targets of attack: institutions of higher education, especially students and faculties in the social sciences; the media; the political establishment -- centers where public opinion, legislation and government policies and agendas were shaped -- and the court system, which codifed and interpreted American law.
	www.rachel.org /library/getfile.cfm?ID=179 (3932 words)

	Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (1907-1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Powell believed in the importance of contributing to the legal profession through active participation in associations.
		He served as the President of the American Bar Association from 1964 to 1965; of the American College of Trial Lawyers from 1968 to 1969; and of the American Bar Foundation from 1969-1971.
		In retirement, Powell kept chambers in the Supreme Court building and summer chambers in Richmond.
	law.wlu.edu /alumni/bios/powell.htm (519 words)

	A.C. Pritchard, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., And The Counterrevolution In The Federal Securities Laws, 52 Duke L. J. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lewis F. Powell, Jr., was born in Suffolk, Virginia and raised in Forest Hill, a suburb of Richmond.
		Powell was proud of the work that he was doing to curb the SEC and the plaintiffs' bar and pleased by the reception that his work received among his friends in the corporate bar.
		Powell the corporate lawyer could not have been comfortable with the notion that the supposedly objective standard for materiality might vary with the context in which it was applied.
	www.law.duke.edu /journals/dlj/articles/DLJ52P841.HTM (17160 words)

	Black Robes Don’t Make the Justice, but the Rest of His Closet Just Might
		Justice Powell held the balance of power on both issues in the 1980’s and consequently played the central role in shaping the precedents that the court is now reconsidering.
		The fact is that Lewis Powell, who died in 1998 just short of his 91st birthday, was a person of a particular time and place, a patrician son of the Old South, who transcended his origins in some ways and not in others, and who drew particular lessons from some singular life experiences.
		Lewis Powell was born into an old Virginia family that was collaterally descended from one of the original Jamestown colony settlers.
	www.sodomylaws.org /usa/usnews55.htm (1142 words)

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		Powell, a former president of the American Bar Association and a prominent Richmond lawyer, was anything but eager to be appointed to the Supreme Court at age 64.
		Powell also is a classic example of the fact that in nominating or approving someone for the Supreme Court, presidents and senators cannot foresee all questions that will come before the court and cannot always predict how the nominee will vote.
		Powell makes clear, says Jeffries, that "when picking a Supreme Court justice, it is better to pick a person than a point of view." The biography, which has received much advance acclaim, is the first book aimed at a general audience by Mr.
	www.virginia.edu /insideuva/textonlyarchive/94-06-03/5.txt (1034 words)

	The Third Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Powell quickly developed a reputation as a consensus builder on the court.
		The life and career of Lewis Powell are emblematic of this close, necessary bond between the bench and bar.
		Lewis Powell came to the Court with no previous judicial experience, but with a towering reputation as a mar-velous lawyer.
	www.uscourts.gov /ttb/sep98ttb/powell.html (491 words)

	Lewis F. Powell Jr.
		Powell was appointed to the high court by Nixon in October 1971 and served for 15 years, from 1972 to 1987.
		Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and the counterrevolution in the federal securities laws.
		A "triumph of justice" in Alabama: the 1960 perjury trial of Martin Luther King, Jr.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0764337.html (211 words)

	Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Biography
		Justice Powell’s return to the practice of law after World War II allowed him to resume building the practice that had been interrupted.
		Powell and told him it was his duty to his country to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
		Justice Powell established himself on the Court as the consensus maker.
	www.innsofcourt.org /Content/InnContent.aspx?Id=713 (694 words)

	Remembering Justice Lewis Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I was one of Justice Powell’s law clerks during the 1981 Term.
		To clerk for Justice Powell in 1981–82 was to be at the center of decision making in the Supreme Court.
		Powell was known then as the "swing" Justice.
	www.law.harvard.edu /alumni/bulletin/backissues/fall98/article5.html (565 words)

	Kit Lasher: Climbing Her Next Mountain
		WHEN LEWIS F. POWELL, JR., became an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1972, he was known as one of the nation's leading corporate lawyers, a prodigious "rainmaker," and a pillar of the legal establishment.
		Indeed, as a young man, Powell was so active in the local legal aid society that he earned a reputation as the leading "free" lawyer in Richmond.
		Lasher was chosen as the 2002 Powell Fellow and in September she began working with the Riverdale office of Maryland's Legal Aid Bureau (MDLAB), a group of forty attorneys providing free legal services to Maryland's neediest residents.
	www.law.virginia.edu /home2002/html/alumni/uvalawyer/f02/lasher.htm (915 words)

	SCALES OF JUSTICE TWO BIOGRAPHIES OF INFLUENTIAL JUDGES CAST LIGHT ON THE INTELLECTS THAT HELPED SHAPE AMERICAN LAW.
		Even as a boy, Jeffries writes in Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: A Biography, ``he had a modesty and fastidiousness that endured throughout his life.'' The young Powell, soft-spoken like his mother, refused to mount a horse, ``hated'' to mow the lawn and received straight A's in school.
		Powell's principal act of youthful defiance apparently was his decision to attend Washington and Lee University instead of the University of Virginia.
		Powell, a Nixon appointee, brought this cautious sensitivity to conventional morality to the Supreme Court.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940911/09090619.htm (837 words)

	United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Nominations of William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
		Lewis F. Powell, Jr., of Virginia, to be Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
		Lewis F. Powell, Jr., of Virginia, to be Associate Justices of the
		PDF 475 KB Prepared statement by the Honorable John Conyers, Jr., Member of Congress, on behalf of himself and members of the Congressional Black Caucus in regard to Lewis F. Powell, Jr Statement of the Old Dominion Bar Association of Virginia, dated November 8, 1971 in regard to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
	www.gpoaccess.gov /congress/senate/judiciary/sh92-69-267/browse.html (1767 words)

	Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Biography / Biography of Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Biography
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		Powell attended Washington and Lee College, from which he graduated in 1929, and Harvard Law School, where he studied under Felix Frankfurter, completing a L.L.M. degree in 1932.
		Powell married Josephine M. Rucker on May 2, 1936, and was the father of three daughters and a son.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-lewis-f-powell-jr (220 words)

	The Supreme Court Historical Society
		LEWIS F. JR., was born in Suffolk, Virginia, on September 19, 1907, and lived most of his life in Richmond, Virginia.
		Powell entered practice with a Richmond law firm, where he became a senior partner and continued his association until 1971.
		Powell served on the Supreme Court for fifteen years.
	www.supremecourthistory.org /02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/084.html (185 words)

	Powell Lewis Franklin Jr - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Powell, Lewis Franklin, Jr (1907-1998), American jurist and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
		Bakke Case : Supreme Court decision: text of opinion of Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
		In 1973 and 1974, Allan Bakke, a white student, applied to medical school at the University of California at Davis.
	encarta.msn.com /Powell_Lewis_Franklin_Jr.html (115 words)

	Powell Memo: Text and Analysis
		In 1971, Lewis F. Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
		Though Powell's memo was not the sole influence, the Chamber and corporate activists took his advice to heart and began building a powerful array of institutions designed to shift public attitudes and beliefs over the course of years and decades.
		Powell did embrace expansion of corporate privilege and wrote the majority opinion in First National Bank of Boston v.
	www.reclaimdemocracy.org /corporate_accountability/powell_memo_lewis.html (6349 words)

	USATODAY.com - New justices will strongly affect gay Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1986, Powell, then 78, remarked to his fellow justices and a law clerk that he in fact had never even known a homosexual.
		Powell, who went on that year to cast the swing vote in a devastating anti-gay ruling upholding Georgia's anti-sodomy law, had been served by a long line of closeted gay clerks, both male and female.
		Powell was far from alone in his failure to come to grips with the harm being inflicted upon gay people.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/2001-06-20-ncguest1.htm (888 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Powell, Lewis Franklin, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		[Powell, Lewis Franklin, Jr.] 1907-98, American lawyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1971-87), b.
		Suffolk, Va. He studied law at Washington and Lee Univ. and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1931.
		Powell also held several prestigious positions, including president of the American Bar Association and chairman of the Virginia Board of Education.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Powell-L1.asp (316 words)

	Justice Powell's Papers Shed Light on Bakke, Other Key Cases
		The Supreme Court's reconsideration this term of allowing race as a factor in college admissions puts the spotlight on Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.--and his reasoning--in casting the deciding vote in the landmark Bakke case that has spawned disagreement among courts nationally since the 1978 ruling.
		Powell's complete papers--including his Supreme Court case files and his correspondence with fellow justices--are available at Washington and Lee University's School of Law, the only academic institution to hold the full and open archives of a key member of the nation's highest court.
		The Powell Archives also reflect the late justice's considerations in other race-related situations he witnessed as a Richmond attorney, a member of the Virginia State Board of Education and a judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
	www2.wlu.edu /news/page/normal/313.html (534 words)

	JUSTICE WHO HELPED DEVISE DEATH PENALTY NOW OPPOSES IT
		The report of Powell's change of heart comes less than four months after Powell's longtime colleague, retiring Justice Harry A. Blackmun, pronounced the death penalty a failed ``experiment.'' Like Powell, Blackmun was appointed to the court by Republican President Richard M. Nixon.
		Appointed to the court in 1971, Powell grappled with the death penalty in one of his first major cases.
		Four years later, Powell was one of three centrist justices who used their swing votes to reinstate capital punishment.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/940611/06110339.htm (797 words)

	The Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives
		The Archives comprises the Papers of Lewis F. Powell, Jr., other manuscript collections held by the law library and the archives of the School of Law.
		With the extensive and and unique documentation of the life of this school's most distinguished alumnus as its centerpiece, the Powell Archives welcomes researchers from across the United States and from the international research community.
		The Papers of Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Richmond, Virginia attorney and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, document his legal and judicial careers; military service in World War II; leadership positions in varied civic and professional organizations; and friendships and family relations.
	law.wlu.edu /library/powell/index.asp (322 words)

	University of Michigan Law School: Centers and Programs
		Powell s influence was the product of his extensive experience with the securities laws as a corporate lawyer, which gave him much greater familiarity with that body of law than his fellow Justices had.
		Powell s skepticism led him to interpret the securities law in a consistently narrow fashion to reduce liability exposure and increase predictability.
		Powell also rebuffed the SEC s efforts to expand its reach, particularly in insider trading and takeover regulation.
	www.law.umich.edu /CentersAndPrograms/olin/abstracts/02-010.htm (182 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Powell
		Powell, A. — of Raleigh, Wake County, N.C. Mayor of Raleigh, N.C. Burial location unknown.
		Powell, I. — of Canton, Haywood County, N.C. Republican.
		Powell, William Frank (1848-1920) — also known as William F. Powell — of New Jersey.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/powell.html (1361 words)

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