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unusual facts about Michael F. Brennan


Michael Brennan

Michael F. Brennan, Mayor of Portland and former United States Democratic Party State Senator in Maine


Bernard Segal

In 1981, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review devoted a unique issue to Segal, with tributes from Supreme Court Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. and Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Judges Arlin M. Adams and Louis H. Pollak and other legal luminaries.

Burnham v. Superior Court of California

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote an opinion also joined by three other Justices.

Center for Science in the Public Interest

CSPI is headed by Michael F. Jacobson, who founded the group in 1971 along with James Sullivan and Albert Fritsch, two fellow scientists from Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law.

Dapper O'Neil

In 1999, O'Neil finished fifth (behind Francis Roache, Stephen J. Murphy, Peggy Davis-Mullen, Michael F. Flaherty) in an at-large race in which the top four make the council.

Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh

The auction was held at Sotheby's of London on 10 November 1911, and the manuscript was purchased by Dublin physician, Michael F. Cox, for £79.00.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme Court candidates

During his two terms in office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed five members of the Supreme Court of the United States: Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Associate Justices John Marshall Harlan, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker, and Potter Stewart.

Elliott Waters Montroll

M. F. Shlesinger and G. H. Weiss, Elliott Waters Montroll (May 4, 1916 – December 3, 1983), in The Wonderful World of Stochastics (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1985), 1–16.

Emily Deschanel

In 2005, Emily Deschanel was chosen for the role of Dr. Temperance Brennan on Fox's Bones, a series based on the fictional novels of real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.

Eyewitness identification

Although it has been observed, by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., in his dissent to Watkins v. Sowders, that witness testimony is evidence that "juries seem most receptive to, and not inclined to discredit".

First National Bank of Omaha

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote that the 1863 law permitted a national bank to charge interest at the rate allowed by the regulations of the state in which the lending institution is located.

J. J. Brennan

In a senior inter-county career that lasted from 1905 until 1914 he won four All-Ireland titles and four Leinster titles.

Jim Donnan

Donnan was fired by University President Michael F. Adams, against the wishes of athletic director Vince Dooley, in 2000 after the Bulldogs struggled to two consecutive eight-win seasons, and three consecutive losses against Georgia Tech.

Joseph Brennan

Joseph E. Brennan (born 1934), U.S. politician, former Governor of Maine

Justice Brennan

William J. Brennan, Jr., former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Thomas E. Brennan, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and founder of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Lincoln Catafalque

The catafalque has also been used six times in the Supreme Court Building, for the lying in state of former Chief Justice Earl Warren on July 11–12, 1974; former Justice Thurgood Marshall, January 27, 1993; former Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger, June 28, 1995; former Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., July 28, 1997; Justice Harry A. Blackmun, March 8, 1999, and Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on September 6–7, 2005.

MANual Enterprises v. Day

Justice William Brennan, joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William O. Douglas, concurred but would have decided the case on much narrower technical rather than First Amendment grounds.

Mary Frances Early

On May 10, 2013 at the Spring Commencement Ceremony, Early was honored by the University of Georgia when President Michael F. Adams presented her with an honorary doctorate of laws degree.

Merrick B. Garland

Considered a judicial moderate, Garland told senators during his U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1995 that the U.S. Supreme Court justice for whom he had the greatest admiration was Chief Justice John Marshall, and that he had personal affection for the justice for whom he clerked, Justice William Brennan.

Michael F. Conry

Conry was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until his death.

Born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Conry was employed in the coal mines until crippled for life.

Michael F. Crommie

Crommie is known for demonstrating the quantum corral in 1993 with Lutz and Eigler by using an elliptical ring of cobalt atoms on a copper surface.

Michael F. Farley

He was elected to the 64th United States Congress as a Democrat, and served until his defeat for reelection in 1916.

Michael F. Feldkamp

Der Stellvertreter von Rolf Hochhuth in der Innen- und Außenpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

So he has critically analysed “Hitler's Pope“ by John Cornwell and A Moral Reckoning by Daniel Goldhagen. Within Germany he has achieved recognition for his studies of the German “Basic Law” (Constitution) and the history of the Bundestag.

Michael F. Good

Postdoctoral training was as a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

In 2008 Good was awarded an Order of Australia for his services to medical research and in 2009 he received the Eureka Prize for Leadership.

Michael F. Shlesinger

In 1975, he obtained his PhD from the University of Rochester under Elliott Waters Montroll for a thesis entitled A Stochastic Theory of Anomalous Transient Photocurrents - in Certain Xerographic Films and of the 1/f Noise in Neural Membrane.

He subsequently went on to head their physics division, before being named ONR's chief scientist for nonlinear science.

Michael F. Urbanski

Born in Livorno, Italy, where his father was stationed in the U.S. Army, Urbanski earned a bachelor's degree in 1978 from the College of William and Mary and a law degree in 1981 from the University of Virginia School of Law.

From 1981 until 1982, Urbanski served as a law clerk to Judge James Clinton Turk of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

Michael F. Williams

He has received commissions from many of New Zealand's major musical institutions such as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, NBR New Zealand Opera and Chamber Music New Zealand and his work is regularly broadcast on Radio New Zealand Concert.

Michael Flaherty

Michael F. Flaherty, Sr. (born 1936), former judge and former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Michael Kitt

Michael F. Kitt (1914–1974), Irish Fianna Fáil politician and long-serving Teachta Dála

Patrick H. Kelly

He challenged eight-term incumbent Democrat Michael F. O'Connell, and defeated him in the Democratic primary by eight votes (737 to 729) in a three-way race.

Peter Brennan

Peter J. Brennan (1918–1996), United States Secretary of Labor under Presidents Nixon and Ford

Protosialis casca

They used the alderfly classification system put forth by Dr. Michael Whiting in his 1994 paper on the phylogeny of North American alderflies which treated Protosialis as a subgenus of Sialis.

Random checkpoint

Further, Justice Brennan in his dissenting opinion argued that the police had failed to show that the checkpoint seizures were a necessary tool and worth the intrusion on individual privacy.

Tales from Gavagan's Bar

While L. Sprague de Camp never continued the series on his own, an additional Gavagan's Bar story authored by Michael F. Flynn, "The Ensorcelled ATM", appeared in Harry Turtledove's 2005 tribute anthology honoring de Camp, The Enchanter Completed.

The Jerky Boys: The Movie

The Jerky Boys: The Movie, also known as The Jerky Boys, is a 1995 comedy/crime film starring John G. Brennan and Kamal Ahmed, best known as the comedy duo The Jerky Boys.

Thomas Brennan

Thomas E. Brennan (born 1929), American jurist, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court

William Brennan

William J. Brennan, Jr. (1906–1997), former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

William D. Connor

He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1906, receiving 174,750 votes against 104,398 for Michael F. Blenski (Democratic), 25,036 for William Kaufmann (Social Democrats), 8,724 for August F. Fehlandt (Progressive) and 510 for John Veirthaler (Socialist Labor).

William Emmett Dever

In 1923, Democratic party boss George E. Brennan selected Dever as having the best chance of defeating incumbent mayor William "Big Bill" Thompson.


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