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7 unusual facts about James Wilson


2013 Zuiderduin Masters

James Wilson won the tournament for the first time, beating defending champion and number one seed Stephen Bunting in the final.

James Wilson 102.09 5-2 Rick Hofstra 94.56

James Wilson 95.86 5-2 Geert De Vos 92.94

James Wilson

After graduating from the University of St. Andrews, he spent two years in Edinburgh and Glasgow studying Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, including Francis Hutcheson, David Hume and Adam Smith.

Justice Wilson

James Wilson, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Stephen Bunting

His tournament included a 6-0 semi-final win over world #4 Darryl Fitton, and a 7-0 final win over world #2 James Wilson.

Timothy Matlack

In the years that followed he was an ardent defender of this frame against such critics as Benjamin Rush, James Wilson and John Dickinson.


Chisholm v. Georgia

In a 4 to 1 decision, the Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, with Chief Justice John Jay and Associate Justices John Blair, James Wilson, and William Cushing constituting the majority; only Justice Iredell dissented.

Christian Kist

After losing in the first round to James Wilson at the 2014 Championship, Kist announced he would be switching to the Professional Darts Corporation by entering their Qualifying School.

Criminal law in the Marshall Court

In United States v. Ravara (C.C.D. Pa. 1793), an indictment for sending anonymous and threatening letters to a foreign minister with a view to extort money, Justice James Wilson argued that the circuit court could be given concurrent jurisdiction; Justice James Iredell argued that it could not; Judge Richard Peters, of the District of Pennsylvania, sided with Wilson, and the case continued.

George W. Morrison

Morrison was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Wilson and served from October 8, 1850, to March 3, 1851.

Michael Tritter

In the next episode, "Que SerĂ¡ SerĂ¡", Tritter searches House's apartment and finds a large quantity of Vicodin pills and two apparently forged prescriptions that bear the name of House's friend James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard).

Property law

James Wilson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1790 and 1791, undertook a survey of the philosophical grounds of American property law.

William Findley

At one point, Constitutional Convention delegate James Wilson and Pennsylvania Chief Justice Thomas McKean disputed one of Findley's statements about jury trials in Sweden; Findley returned two days later with William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and demonstrated that his reference had been correct.


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