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Solicitor General

In many states, the Solicitor General also formulates a State's legal position in significant out-of-state cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.


1952 steel strike

Attending the meeting were Attorney-General James P. McGranery, who had been confirmed by the Senate on May 20; Solicitor General Philip Perlman; Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett; White House Counsel Charles S. Murphy; Press Secretary Joseph Short; Steelman and Sawyer.

Alicia Ouellette

There she served as an Assistant Solicitor General, arguing over one hundred cases before the New York Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department.

Allan Ryan

In the U.S. Justice Department, he was Assistant to the Solicitor General and from 1980 to 1983 Director of the Office of Special Investigations, Criminal Division, responsible for the investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the United States.

Baltej Singh Dhillon

On March 16, 1990, the federal Solicitor General, Pierre Cadieux, announced in the House of Commons that the policy was theretofore amended to permit Sikhs to wear the turban while on active duty in the RCMP.

Fleeing felon rule

Samuel Alito's memo written while working in the Solicitor General's office regarding Memphis Police v. Garner which was the Sixth Circuit appellate case leading to Tennessee v. Garner.

Harry Morris, 1st Baron Morris of Kenwood

However, he resigned his seat four weeks later, on 20 March, (by taking the Stewardship of the Manor of Northstead) to make way for the former Solicitor General Sir Frank Soskice, whose Birkenhead East constituency had been abolished.

Itata Incident

The Harrison Administration appointed William Howard Taft, the US Solicitor General (and later U.S. President), and Los Angeles-based federal prosecutor Henry Gage (later Governor of California), to investigate the Itata and prosecute its crew and suppliers.

John D. Lee

Former Solicitor General Rex E. Lee is a direct descendant of John Lee as are his sons Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas R. Lee.

Jonathan Djanogly

He served on the Trade and Industry Select Committee from 2001, was promoted to the frontbench by Michael Howard as an opposition spokesman on Home Affairs in 2004, and served as Shadow Solicitor General between May 2004 and May 2010.

Newport by-election, 1956

The Labour candidate was Sir Frank Soskice, who had been Solicitor General and then Attorney General in the Labour Government 1945-1951.

Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford

Gifford was elected to the House of Commons for Eye in 1817, a seat he represented until 1824, and served under the Earl of Liverpool as Solicitor General between 1817 and 1819 and as Attorney General between 1819 and 1824.

Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc.

Secretary Rumsfeld's position was represented before the Supreme Court by the Solicitor General, Paul Clement.

S – Portrait of a Spy

In a 1977 review Paul Hellyer, a former Minister of National Defence, suggested other characters were strongly based on John Starnes, Bennett's boss, Solicitor General Jean-Pierre Goyer, Karl Kristian Ring, who he identifies as an arms dealer.

Selective Draft Law Cases

The Solicitor General's argument, and the court's opinion, were based primarily on Kneedler v. Lane, which was actually multiple opinions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War that upheld the Enrollment Act, and Vattel's The Law of Nations (1758).

Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet

He was Lower Canada's Solicitor General from 1857 to 1858 and from 1858 to 1859 and also acted as various times as commissioner of public works and Receiver General.

Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry

On 14 March 1617 he was appointed Solicitor General and was knighted.

Thomas Sewell

In 1761, Sewell was one of two candidates considered for appointment as Solicitor General, but the post went instead to Fletcher Norton. However, in 1764 he was knighted and appointed Master of the Rolls, apparently to the surprise of many including himself, after a number of other candidates had refused the post; he held it until his death twenty years later.

United States v. Lara

Solicitor General Ted Olson argued that Congress, in response to the Duro decision, acted to "recognize and affirm" the Indian tribe's inherent power to enforce its criminal laws against Indians of other tribes.

Van Orden v. Perry

An amicus curiae was presented on behalf of the respondents (the state of Texas) by then-Solicitor General Paul Clement.

Withdrawn Canadian banknotes

The denomination was withdrawn on the advice of the Solicitor General and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), as it was often used for money laundering and organized crime.


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Adil Charkaoui

Charkaoui was arrested under a security certificate in May 2003, which was co-signed by Solicitor General Wayne Easter, and Immigration Minister Denis Coderre.

Allan Pilkey

The agreement was made between the Indian Commissioner of Ontario, Bud Wildman, the provincial minister responsible for native affairs, Doug Lewis, the federal Solicitor General and several native leaders.

Andrew Leigh

He has also worked as a researcher for UK Solicitor General Ross Cranston, as senior trade adviser to the late Senator Peter Cook, and as a research fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.).

Australian Agricultural Company

Amongst the principal members of this company were the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General of England, 28 Members of Parliament, including Mr. Brougham, and Mr. Joseph Hume, the Governor, Deputy Governor and eight of the directors of the Bank of England; the Chairman and Deputy-Chairman and five directors of the British East India Company, besides many other eminent bankers and merchants of England.

Baron Manners

He served as Solicitor-General from 1802 to 1805 and as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1807 to 1827.

Baron Sandhurst

He was the grandson of Sir James Mansfield, Solicitor-General and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

Bator

Paul M. Bator (1929–1989), American law professor and Deputy Solicitor General of the United States

Corruption in Papua New Guinea

There are nine public sector agencies which work with the NACA with the objective of combating corruption in the public sector: Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary, Public Prosecutor’s Office, Ombudsman Commission, Auditor General’s Office, Solicitor General’s Office, Department of Treasury, Department of Provincial and Local Government Affairs, Internal Revenue Commission, and the Department of Personnel Management.

Daniel M'Naghten

The case was prosecuted by the solicitor-general, Sir William Follett (the attorney-general being busy in Lancaster prosecuting Feargus O'Connor and 57 other Chartists following the plug riots).

Dick Proctor

As an MP, Proctor forced the resignation of Solicitor-General Andy Scott in 1998 when, on a flight from Ottawa to Saint John, New Brunswick, he overheard an indiscreet conversation between Scott and a political ally discussing the inquiry into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's handling of protesters at the Vancouver Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.

Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford

Guilford had been an eminent lawyer, Solicitor-General (1671), Attorney-General (1673), and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1675), and in 1679 was made a member of the Council of Thirty and, on its dissolution, of the Cabinet.

Gligorije Trlajić

Gligorije Trlajić was educated in Segedin, Buda, and Pesth, and studied law at the University of Vienna before he entered the bureaucracy in the department of justice in which he rose rapidly to be assistant to the solicitor-general in Vienna.

H. Stuart Hughes

The family's stay in Washington, D.C. was relatively brief; Charles Hughes, Jr. was compelled to resign as Solicitor General when his father was appointed Chief Justice of the United States upon the death of William Howard Taft in 1930.

Harley Frankfurt

He has been acknowledged by Lawrence MacAulay, former Solicitor General of Canada, and Pat Binns, former premier of Prince Edward Island and Ralph Klein, former premier of Alberta for his many contributions in promoting projects and business.

Harvard Law School Public Interest Auction

Solicitor General and former HLS Dean Elena Kagan was one of the auctioneers for several years, along with HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain.

Holmes Conrad

In 1893 President Grover Cleveland appointed him Assistant Attorney General of the U.S., and in 1895 he became Solicitor General.

Institute for Law, Science and Global Security

Since its creation, the Institute has also sponsored events with a variety of other speakers, including Paul D. Clement, former Solicitor General of the United States, Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico, Neal Katyal, Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and legal counsel to former detainee Salim Hamdan, and David H. Remes, a former partner at Covington & Burling and currently representing detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.

J. Esmonde Barry

McKenna-era New Brunswick Solicitor General Jane Barry noted that although she didn't always agree with his point of view, she always respected him.

James Monk

In 1771, he studied law in London and on the recommendation of Lord Hillsborough he was appointed Solicitor-General of Nova Scotia in 1772, while continuing his law studies in London.

Jemima Blackburn

The youngest daughter of James Wedderburn, Solicitor General for Scotland, and a first cousin of James Clerk Maxwell, Jemima was a friend and pupil of John Ruskin and Sir Edwin Landseer, both of whom praised her work highly.

John Darvall

He was also Solicitor-General and subsequently Attorney- General in the government of Henry Parker between 1856 and 1857.

Joseph Gellibrand

As a consequence of the charge Alfred Stephen the solicitor-general applied to have Gellibrand struck off the rolls.

Kannon Shanmugam

Before joining the Office of the Solicitor General, he was an associate at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.

Lechmere baronets

Other members of the family include Sir Nicholas Lechmere, a Baron of the Exchequer during the reign of King William III and Member of Parliament for Bewdley, and his grandson Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Lord Anderson

Adam Anderson, Lord Anderson (1797–1853), a Scottish judge, Solicitor General for Scotland and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Quebec

Or it may have been named in honor of Sir James Mansfield (1733-1821), Solicitor General of Canada in 1780, or William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793).

Morse v. Frederick

Deputy Solicitor-General Edwin Kneedler spoke on behalf of the U.S. government in support of the petitioner.

Nocton

Monuments are to Sir William Ellys (died 1680), attributed to William Stanton, to the Fourth Earl of Buckinghamshire (died 1816), to Rev. Henry Hobart, Dean of Windsor (died 1846), and to the First Earl of Ripon (died 1859), this designed by George Gilbert Scott with an 1862 effigy by Matthew Noble.

Numa Edward Hartog

Within weeks, Solicitor-General John Coleridge of the Gladstone government introduced legislation to rectify the situation.

Philip Crampton

Philip Cecil Crampton (1783–1862), judge, politician and Solicitor-General for Ireland

Rex Lee

Rex E. Lee, US Solicitor General under President Reagan and later president of Brigham Young University

Robert Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell

When solicitor-general he painted in St. James's Park, and he exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery, especially pictures of the neighbourhood of Rosenlaui, Switzerland, where he spent many vacations.

Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam Video Clip

The other four members were former Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Steve Shim Lip Kiong, former Solicitor-General Zaitun Zawiyah Puteh, historian Khoo Kay Kim and retired Court of Appeal Judge Mahadev Shankar.

Sir James Stewart

Stewart's only son, Sir James Stewart, 1st Baronet of Goodtrees and Coltness, became solicitor-general and was father of Sir James Steuart-Denham the elder.

Sir James Stewart, 1st Baronet

The elder Stewart was replaced as Lord Advocate by Sir David Dalrymple in 1709, but the younger Stewart succeeded Dalrymple as Solicitor-General, holding the office jointly with Thomas Kennedy of Dunure.

Thomas Anthony Thacher

He was also the paternal grandfather of US Solicitor General Thomas D. Thacher and Molly Kazan, and the great-great-grandfather of actress and writer Zoe Kazan.

Timeline of BC Legislature Raids

27, 2003 - BC Solicitor General Rich Coleman calls Premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell, who is on vacation in Hawaii.

Whichcote baronets

Whichcote, previously Solicitor-General to Prince Rupert of the Rhine, bought the post of Warden of Fleet Prison and, during the Commonwealth, was able to shelter the king’s friends and agents in this way.

William Bullitt

William Marshall Bullitt (1873–1957), lawyer, author and Solicitor General of the United States, notable burglary victim

William Horwood

William Whorwood or Horwood (by 1505-1545), Solicitor General, Attorney General and MP for Downton

Winnington baronets

Sir Francis Winnington (1634–1700) Solicitor-General to King Charles II, acquired the family seat of Stanford Court, Stanford on Teme, Worcestershire through his marriage to Elizabeth, third and youngest sister and coheir of Edward Salwey.