Suchergebnisse

Prologue : of water, men and the law -- The nation moves West (1830-1880) -- Herbert Spencer and social darwinism (1859-1938) -- Economic fortunes and misfortunes (1860-1875) -- The prior appropriation doctrine (1840s-present) -- Equitable apportionment (1902-present) -- Interstate compacts (1922-present) -- Young Willis van Devanter -- Cincinnatus (1833-1885) -- Watching the court (1870s, 1880s) -- Willis goes West (1883) -- The Warren machine (1884-1890) Willis and the "Johnson county war" (1890-1892) -- Banditti of the plains (1893-1896) -- Willis' Wyoming politics go national (1892-1896) -- Cleveland's second chance, Senator Warren and the McKinley administration (1895-1897) -- Assistant Attorney General Van Devanter (1897-1903) -- Van Devanter's Eighth Circuit decisions (1903-1911) -- Reasonable rail rates, The Sherman Act (1890-1911) -- The Supreme Court turns white (1908-1911) -- The Sherman Act at the Supreme Court -- "Good fellows" Willis and William (1921-1922) -- Wyoming v. Colorado (1903-1913) -- Who controls the water? (1902-1917) -- Development under the Reclamation Act and return to court (1905-1922) -- Judicial harmony (1922) -- Natural resource or interstate commerce? (1921-1923) -- Van Devanter's surreptitious composition of the opinion and decree (1922) -- Wyoming v. Colorado, final opinion published (1922) -- Where was the balance of the court on June 5, 1922? (1922) -- The decree and holding of Wyoming v. Colorado -- What of the merits of Wyoming v. Colorado? -- What of the effect of the decision in Wyoming v. Colorado? -- The case for recusal -- Van Devanter's Indian cases (1897-1921) -- Van Devanter's Income Tax Cases (1920-1925) -- The Four Horsemen -- The measure of a justice -- Finis.