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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Austrian-born American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, during which he was an advocate of judicial restraint.
Felix Frankfurter was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1939–62), a noted scholar and teacher of law, who was in his time the high court’s leading exponent of the doctrine of judicial self-restraint.
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Feb 10, 2023 · On the fourth floor of the Harvard Law School Library sits Justice Felix Frankfurter’s rocking chair. It was a fitting seat for Frankfurter, an intellectual in constant motion. Georgetown Law Professor Brad Snyder’s new biography of Frankfurter, Democratic Justice, 1 tells the story of a restless truth-seeker.
Aug 12, 2022 · Board of Education, Justice Felix Frankfurter received word while vacationing in Massachusetts that Chief Justice Fred Vinson had died suddenly of a heart attack.
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FELIX FRANKFURTER was born in Vienna, Austria, on November 15, 1882. When he was twelve years old, his family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York, New York. Frankfurter was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1902 and Harvard Law School in 1906.
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May 18, 2018 · Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882–February 21, 1965) was associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962. He was born in Vienna, Austria, one of six children of Leopold and Emma (Winter) Frankfurter. In 1894, the family moved to New York.
