National University - Docket Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY The Supreme Court T he Constitution established “one Supreme Court and left to Congress the task of setting up other Federal courts as are necessary. The first Congress passed the famous Judiciary Act of 1789. This organized the Supreme Court and established lower Federal courts. Americans believe that no branch of our gov- ernment has been more successful in its workings than the judicial branch. that the judicial branch is the feature which crowns our entire system of government A judge of the Supreme Court is appointed by the President with the approval of Senate. No man can run that gauntlet of selectivity if he has one iota of unfairness, unkindness, prejudice or intellectual dishonesty about his makeup. He may hold his position during good behavior. — which has meant for life. He performs his work without fear or favor, for he cannot be forced out of his position. He upholds the Constitution and the laws of the United States, and deals out justice to everyone alike. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, the Supreme Court has the final power to pass on any law made either by Congress or by the legislature of a state; it has power to decide whether the law is in accord or whether it is at var- iance with the Constitution. Faculty

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THE 1937 DOCKET = Politae legibus non leges politiis adaptandae ( Politics are to be adapted to the laws, and not the laws to politics .) Book One Standing, Left to Right : Owen J. Roberts of Pennsylvania (1875 — May 20 , 1930 ); Pierce Butler of Minnesota (1866 — Dec. 21 , 1922 ); Harlan Fiske Stone of New York (1872 — Feb. 5 , 1925 ); Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York ( 1870 — March 2 , 1932 ). Seated, Left to Right : Louis D. Brandeis of Massachusetts (1856 — June 1 , 1916 ); Willis Van Devanter of Wyoming (1858 — Dec. 15 , 1910 ); Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York (1862 — Feb. 13 , 1930 ); James Clark McReynolds of Tennessee (1862 — Aug. 29 , 1914 ); George Southerland of Utah ( 1862 — Sept. 5 , 1922 ).

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THE 1037 DOCKET HON. CHARLES S. HATFIELD, LL.D. Professor of Federal Procedure and Agency ; Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Native of Ohio; A.B. at Hanover College; post-graduate course at Indiana University , gra- duated at law at Ohio State University and began actice of law in 1907; prosecuting attorney of aod County, Ohio, 1911-1914; appointed Judge the United States Court of Customs Appeal, arch 4, 1923; Chancellor of the University. CHARLES PERGLER, D.C.L., LL.D. Professor of Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence Dean of the Law School; Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence, Law Faculty, accredited Diplo- matic Representative of Czechoslovakia in the U. S., 1918; Czechoslovak Minister to Japan, 1920-21; Member Czechoslovak Chamber of Dep- uties, 1929-1931. HON. CHARLES H. ROBB, LL.D. Professor Emeritus of Lazo and Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Native of Vermont; practiced law at Bellows Falls, Vermont, 1894-1902; Assistant Attorney General of United States, 1904-1900; appointed an associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in 1900; member of National University Faculty for twenty-five years.