Today in Supreme Court History: September 19, 1907

9/19/1907: Justice Lewis Powell's birthday.

Justice Lewis Powell

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[Dan Schiavetta]

United States v. United Liquors Corp., 77 S.Ct. 208 (decided September 19, 1956): Reed denies stay of antitrust judgment prohibiting defendants from “entering into or adhering to any fair trade contract which purports to fix or control the resale price of any alcoholic beverage in the Memphis trading area for five years”, despite argument that they would lose business to other liquor sellers who were not bound by this restriction

[Magister]

Also from that Wikipedia article: "Scholars would later conclude that Powell unknowingly hired more gay clerks than any other Justice." Some sort of uncanny anti-gaydar, I guess.