William Burnham Woods ✓
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US Supreme Court justice from 1881 to 1887
About William Burnham Woods
William Burnham Woods was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. An appointee of President Rutherford B. Hayes, he served from 1881 until 1887. He wrote the majority opinion in United States v. Harris, involving the constitutionality of the Ku Klux Klan Act, and Presser v. Illinois, involving the application of the Second Amendment to the states; both cases adopted a narrow interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. He dissented rarely and wrote mostly uncontroversial opinions.
Cases Argued And Determined In The Circuit Courts Of The United States For The Fifth Judicial Circuit, Volume 3
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