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2 unusual facts about J. Skelly Wright


Joseph Rummel

Both acts were rendered unconstitutional by Judge J. Skelly Wright, a federal judge from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, in the case Earl Benjamin Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board on February 1956.

Shelby M. Jackson

The legislature in special session passed twenty-nine segregation laws, all struck down by U.S. District Judge J. Skelly Wright.


David O. Stewart

Stewart was law clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court during October Term, 1979, after working as law clerk for two appellate judges, J. Skelly Wright and David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.


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