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!colspan="2" style="background:#D7D9FF;"|Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
From: May 12, 1881 – March 22, 1889
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|Nominator||James Garfield
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|Predecessor||Noah H. Swayne
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|Successor||David J. Brewer
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Thomas Stanley Matthews (July 21, 1824 – March 22, 1889) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He wrote the majority opinion in Yick Wo v. Hopkins - which established that de facto discriminatory application of a neutral law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.[1]
References
- ↑ Stanley Matthews (English) (HTML). law.jrank.