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Laurence Tribe

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'''Laurence Henry Tribe''' (b. [http://www.brainyhistory.com/daysbirth/birth_october_10.html October 10, 1941]) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor.

Career
Professor Laurence H. Tribe is generally recognized as one of the foremost constitutional law experts in the nation. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court 34 times. He holds an A.B. from Harvard College with a summa cum laude in Mathematics (1962) and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1966). He served as a law clerk on the California Supreme Court from 1966-67, and as a law clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967-68. He joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in 1968, receiving [http://static.flickr.com/38/84191608_00df36f5c2_b.jpg tenure in 1972]. Tribe is the author of "American Constitutional Law," the most frequently cited treatise in that field. Tribe is regarded by many as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the nation and is noted for his extensive support of American liberalism liberal legal causes. Tribe has argued many high-profile cases, including one for Al Gore during the disputed U.S. presidential election, 2000. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Tribe in Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986, holding that a Georgia state law criminalizing sodomy (oral or anal sex), as applied to consensual acts between persons of the same sex, did not violate fundamental liberties under the principle of substantive due process. However, Tribe was vindicated in 2003, when the Supreme Court overruled Bowers in Lawrence v. Texas. Although Tribe did not argue that case, he authored the amicus brief of the American Civil Liberties Union urging that Bowers be overruled. Tribe was widely regarded as a potential Supreme Court nominee until he testified against Robert Bork, making lasting enemies in the Senate. His protege, Kathleen Sullivan, is now thought of by many as a potential Court nominee if a Democrat takes the White House. A complete list of the 34 cases Tribe has argued in the U.S. Supreme Court as of the end of 2005 is as follows: 1. Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia, 448 U.S. 555 (1981) (win) 2. Heffron v. International Society for Krisha, 452 U.S. 640 (1981) (loss) 3. Crawford v. Board of Education, 458 U.S. 527 (loss) 4. Larkin v. Grendel’s Den, 459 U.S. 116 (1982) (win) 5. White v. Massachusetts Council, 460 U.S. 204 (1983) win) 6. Pacific Gas & Electric v. California, 461 U.S. 190 (1983 (win) 7. Hawaii Housing Auth. v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984) (win) 8. Northeast Bancorp v. Fed. Reserve, 472 U.S. 159 (1985) (win) 9. Board of Education v. National Gay Task Force, 470 U.S. 159 (1985) (win) 10. Fisher v. City of Berkeley, 475 U.S. 260 (1986) (win) 11. Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986) (loss) 12. Pennzoil v. Texaco, 481 U.S. 1 (1986) (win) 13. Schweiker v. Chilicky, 487 U.S. 412 (1988) (loss) 14. Granfinanciera v. Nordberg, 492 U.S. 33 (1989) (loss) 15. Sable Communications v. FCC, 492 U.S. 115 (1989) (draw) 16. Adams Fruit v. Barrett, 494 U.S. 638 (1990) (win) 17. Rust v. Sullivan, 500 U.S. 173 (1991) (loss) 18. Cipollone v. Liggett, 505 U.S. 504 (1992) (win) 19. TXO v. Alliance Resources, 509 U.S. 443 (1993) (win) 20. Honda Motor Co. v. Oberg, 512 U.S. 415 (1994) (loss) 21. U.S. v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone, 516 U.S. 415 (1996) (draw) 22. Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party, 520 U.S. 351 (1997) (loss) 23. Vacco v. Quill, 521 U.S. 793 (1997) (loss) 24. Amchem Products v. Windsor, 521 U.S. 591 (1997) (win) 25. Baker v. General Motors, 522 U.S. 222 (1998) (win) 26. AT&T v. Iowa Utilities Board, 525 U.S. 366 (1999) (loss) 27. Ortiz v. Fibreboard, 527 U.S. 815 (1999) (win) 28. Bush v. Gore I, 531 U.S. 70 (2000) (loss) 29. New York Times v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 438 (2001) (loss) 30. U.S. v. United Foods, 533 U.S. 405 (2001) (win) 31. FCC v. NextWave, 537 U.S. 293 (2002) (win) 32. State Farm v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003) (loss) 33. Nike v. Kasky, 539 U.S. 654 (2003) (loss) 34. Johanns v. Livestock Marketing Association, No. 03-1164 (2005) (loss) Tribe has also argued 26 cases in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals: 1. Worldwide Church of God v. California, 623 F.2d 613 (9th Cir. 1980) (loss) 2. Grendel's Den v. Goodwin, 662 F.2d 102 (1st Cir. 1981) (win) 3. Pacific Legal Foundation v. State Energy Resources, 659 F.2d 903 (9th Cir. 1981) (win) 4. U.S. v. Sun Myung Moon, 718 F.2d 1210 (2d Cir. 1983) (loss) 5. Romany v. Colegio de Abogados, 742 F.2d 32 (1st Cir. 1984) (win) 6. Westmoreland v. CBS, 752 F.2d 16 (2d Cir. 1984) (loss) 7. Colombrito v. Kelly, 764 F.2d 122 (2d Cir. 1985) (win) 8. Texaco v. Pennzoil, 784 F.2d 1133 (2d Cir. 1986) (loss) 9. U.S. v. Bank of New England, 821 F.2d 844 (1st Cir. 1987) (loss) 10. U.S. v. Gallo, 859 F.2d 1078 (2d Cir. 1988) (loss) 11. U.S. v. GAF Corporation, 884 F.2d 670 (2d Cir. 1989) (loss) 12. U.S. v. Western Electric Company, 900 F.2d 283 (D.C. Cir. 1999) (win) 13. Fineman v. Armstrong World Industries, 980 F.2d 171 (D.C. Cir. 1992) (draw) 14. U.S. v. Western Electric Company, 993 F.2d 1572 (D.C. Cir. 1993) (win) 15. Lightning Lube v. Witco Corporation, 4 F.3d 1153 (3d Cir. 1993) (draw) 16. Hopkins v. Dow Corning Corporation, 33 F.3d 1116 (9th Cir. 1994) (win) 17. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone v. U.S., 42 F.3d 181 (4th Cir. 1994) (win) 18. Georgine v. Amchem Products, Inc., 83 F.3d 610 (3d Cir. 1996) (win) 19. BellSouth Corp. v. F.C.C., 144 F.3d 58 (D.C. Cir. 1998) (loss) 20. SBC Communications v. F.C.C., 154 F.3d 226 (5th Cir. 1998) (loss) 21. City of Dallas v. F.C.C., 165 F.3d 341 (5th Cir. 1999) (draw) 22. U.S. West v. Tristani, 182 F.3d 1202 (10th Cir. 1999) (loss) 23. U.S. West v. F.C.C., 182 F.3d 1224 (10th Cir. 1999) (win) 24. Southwest Voter Registration v. Shelley, 344 F.3d 914 (9th Cir. 2003) (loss) 25. Pacific Gas and Elec. v. California, 350 F.3d 932 (9th Cir. 2003) (loss) 26. General Electric v. E.P.A., 360 F.3d 188 (D.C. Cir. 2004) (win)

Plagiarism accusations
In the October 4, 2004 issue of the Weekly Standard it was revealed that several passages in Tribe's 1985 work, "God Save This Honorable Court," were copied without proper attribution from the 1974 book ''Justices and Presidents'', written by University of Virginia political scientist Henry J. Abraham. On April 13, 2005, Harvard's President Lawrence Summers and Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan released a statement that Tribe's admitted failure to provide appropriate attribution was a "significant lapse in proper academic practice," but that they regarded the error as "the product of inadvertence rather than intentionality." Many liberals -- including Tribe's Harvard friend and colleague Alan Dershowitz -- accuse conservatives of having a vendetta against Tribe because his book "God Save this Honorable Court" corralled the U.S. Senate into action and may have frustrated some of the judicial appointments of Ronald Reagan, including the appointment of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.

Policy Debate
Tribe was a champion policy debate policy debater for Harvard University and later a college coach and high school summer institute teacher. He is often credited for inventing the modern "flow" system of recording arguments which increases the rate of speaking speed in the activity.

Books
* ''American Constitutional Law'' (treatise) (1978, 1979, 1988, and 2000) * ''On Reading the Constitution'' (1991) (co-author with Michael Dorf) * ''Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes'' (1990) * ''Constitutional Choices'' (1985) * ''God Save This Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History'' (1985) * ''The Supreme Court: Trends and Developments'' (1979, 1980, 1982, 1983) * ''When Values Conflict: Essays on Environmental Analysis, Discourse, and Decision'' (1976) (ed.) * ''The American Presidency: Its Constitutional Structure'' (1974) * ''Channeling Technology Through Law'' (1973) * ''Environmental Protection'' (1971) (co-author with Louis Jaffe) * ''Technology: Processes of Assessment and Choice'' (1969)

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