Undocumented immigrants often do not report crimes for fear of deportation, said Maya Wiley, chief legal advisor to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Ahead of the debate, Chief Legal Advisor and Attorney General John Larkin QC also raised concerns in a letter that changing the law on fatal fetal abnormality could breach obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
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The deal's chances were dealt a blow earlier on Tuesday when the government's chief legal advisor said that the risks to the U.K. from the "Irish backstop" remained unchanged despite recent legal assurances from Brussels — although he did say the risks had been reduced by the tweaks.
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The Attorney General is the chief legal advisor of the government of Zimbabwe. The office falls under the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs.
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An Attorney-General's Department or Department of [the] Attorney[-]General is a government department in certain countries. Often, it is the office of an attorney general, the chief legal advisor to a government.
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The Attorney General of Ghana is the chief legal advisor to the Ghanaian government. He or she is also responsible for the Ministry of Justice. The Attorney General also serves as a member of the General Legal Council which regulates legal practice in Ghana.
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Lewis resigned as national secretary in 1950 and moved to Toronto to practise law in partnership with Ted Jolliffe. He became the chief legal advisor to the USW's Canadian division, and assisted them in their organizing efforts and battles with the Mine-Mill union.
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After attending law school, Harrell joined US West, now CenturyLink, in 1987. Harrell was chief legal advisor to the Rainier Valley Community Development Fund, chief legal advisor to the First A.M.E. Church and First A.M.E. Housing Corporation, Chief Counsel to US West, and general counsel to the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Zeta Pi Lambda chapter. In addition to his legislative responsibilities, Harrell serves as Chair of the Puget Sound Regional Council's Performance First Committee: a business development strategy of PSRC's Prosperity Partnership; Advisory Board Chair for CASASTART; a focused strategy for youth with behavioral challenges at Seattle Public Schools; and, member of the Social Action Committee for First A.M.E. Church.
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The Attorney General of Rhode Island is the chief legal advisor of the Government of the State of Rhode Island and oversees the State of Rhode Island Department of Law. The Attorney General is elected every four years. The current Attorney General is Peter F. Neronha.
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As a barrister, he handled both criminal and commercial cases. Subsequently, he was a Recorder (judge) of the Crown Court and a Deputy Coroner of the Queen's Household (1959–64). Later, he joined Lloyds Bank as its Chief Legal Advisor. Wheatley wrote many articles for newspapers and legal journals.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, as a partner in the law firm Sandler, Rolnick & Morse, Morse served as Chief Legal Advisor for Adnan Khashoggi in the United States and Europe. Morse was responsible for complex litigation and business transactions for Khashoggi, personally, and for Khashoggi's Triad Group of Companies.
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From 1994–1997, he was chief legal advisor to the government of Taoiseach John Bruton, serving as Attorney General of Ireland. Gleeson is a Bencher of King's Inns. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the School of Law at University College, Dublin. In more recent years he has become known for his business career.
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She was Chief Legal Editor of the Judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1968 to 1980 (and again in 1998), and Chief Legal Advisor for the reform in national health services in 1991. She was Legal advisor, arbitrator, and expert, in Israel and abroad, on litigation matters concerning national and international transactions.
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Members of the executive were elected on the 11 January 2020 Ministers are assisted by backbench Assembly private secretaries (equivalent to parliamentary private secretaries). The non-political Attorney General for Northern Ireland is the chief legal advisor to the Executive, appointed by the First Minister and deputy First Minister, and may also attend Executive meetings.
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In January 2019, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Joe Jacquot to be General Counsel. He serves as chief legal advisor to the Governor and as the top lawyer for state agencies in the Administration overseeing litigation, rulemaking and other legal matters. Additionally Jacquot serves as the Governor's advisor on judicial appointments. In his first month, Governor DeSantis named three new Justices to the Florida Supreme Court.
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Once the war ended Taymetov returned to flying within the Civil Air Fleet, and became the commander of the 161st squadron before becoming the head of Tashkent Airport. At age 56 he graduated from the Law Faculty of Tashkent State University, after which he worked as the chief legal advisor to the Uzbek Civil Aviation Administration. He died on 8 July 1981 in Tashkent.
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The Attorney General is chief legal advisor to the governor and the General Assembly, chief lawyer of the Commonwealth and the head of the Department of Law. The attorney general is second in the line of succession to the governor. Whenever there is a vacancy in all three executive offices of governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general, then the Speaker of the House of the Virginia House of Delegates becomes governor.
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Kankasa-Mabula is a native of Zambia. Following her education in Lusaka, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, she returned to her alma mater, the University of Zambia, Faculty of Law, where she taught commercial law. For a period of time, she worked as director of licensing and enforcement at the Zambian Securities and Exchange Commission. In 1998, she joined the Bank of Zambia, as the bank's secretary and chief legal advisor.
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She was admitted to the bar in 1990 and joined the then Ministry of Consumer Affairs before moving to the Ministry of Fisheries where she was appointed Chief Legal Advisor in 1999. Jagose joined Crown Law in 2002 and was appointed Deputy Solicitor-General in 2012. She was appointed Acting Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau in 2015, Solicitor-General in February 2016 and Queen's Counsel in June 2016.
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Counselor to the President is a position held by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States and senior members of the White House Office. The current senior officeholders are Hope Hicks and Derek Lyons. The position should not be confused with the office of White House Counsel, who is the chief legal advisor to the president and the White House, which is also an appointed position.
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In many states, the lieutenant governor has few official powers, similar to the United States Vice President. However, some lieutenant governors do have significant responsibilities. In Texas, the lieutenant governor has numerous powers over the legislative process, particularly in the senate. Every state has an attorney general, who is the chief legal advisor to the state government and the state's chief law enforcement officer, analogous to the United States Attorney General.
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Rana Asif Saeed Khan () is a Lawyer of the Apex Court of Pakistan. DBA Khanewal Punjab Bar Council website Also served as Chief legal Advisor of Wapda. Has extensively worked as a criminal trial lawyer now conducting cases in diversified fields mainly constitutional,criminal,service and NAB laws. Currently is also the legal advisor of the Women University Multan, Agriculture University Multan, various banks and multi-national companies.
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Highsmith served as chief legal advisor to the Governor's War on Crime Program, Florida from 1967 to 1968 and special counsel for the Florida Racing Commission from 1969 to 1970. Highsmith was a member of the Law Enforcement Planning Counsel of Florida from 1969 to 1970 and served as a circuit judge for the 11th Judicial Circuit (Dade County) from 1970 to 1975. Highsmith resumed private practice in Miami in 1975.
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The Attorney General of Gibraltar is the chief legal advisor of HM Government of Gibraltar. He combines the functions of Attorney General and Director of Public Prosecution and is also an ex officio member of the Gibraltar Parliament. The Attorney General's Chambers have a number of Crown Counsel. He is appointed by the Governor of Gibraltar, acting on the advice and recommendations of the Specified Appointments Commission, in accordance with the constitution.
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The Office of the Attorney-General of Zimbabwe (AG) falls under the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of Zimbabwe. In November 2013, the prosecuting and government advisory roles of the Attorney-General were split under the new Constitution. The Attorney-General on that date, Johannes Tomana, became Prosecutor-General. The Attorney-General is the chief legal advisor of the government of Zimbabwe and also sits as a member of the Senate.
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Ruiz Esparza entered politics in 1981, first serving as State of Mexico's deputy secretary of state and secretary of governor. Prior to his deputy secretary role, he was the chief legal advisor of the State of Mexico's Finance Secretariat. From 1999 to 2005, Ruiz Esparza served as Director of Administration of the Federal Electricity Commission. When Enrique Peña Nieto was elected governor of State of Mexico, he chose Ruiz Esparza as Secretary of Communications in the State Government.
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He is the chairperson of the Committee on Communication, Trade and Investments. He is a member, a former chief legal advisor, the chairman Masaka district and the current national vice president of the Democratic Party, (DP). He is also a member of the Pan African Lawyers Union and the Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (African Court Coalition). He first gained prominence in 2001 when serving as the Guild President for Makerere University.
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Alam was born on 22 March 1922 in Budaun, in Khandan-e-Bani Hameed, a clan of erstwhile Qazis and Zamindars. His father, Maulvi Ikram Alam, was a well known Zamindar, lawyer and politician of the region and played an active part in the state's politics. He was a member of the District Board of Budaun. He also served as the Chief Legal Advisor of Rampur State during the reign of Nawab Hamid Ali Khan and Nawab Raza Ali Khan.
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As assistant legal adviser in the department, he provided legal advice on the Free Trade Agreement with Britain signed in 1965. He was appointed legal adviser to the department in 1970. Together with the Attorney General's office , he was chief legal advisor on Ireland's entry to the European Economic Community in 1973. During the Northern Ireland troubles he was involved in the case taken by Ireland against Britain before the European Court of Human Rights on ill-treatment of detainees.
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Monckton was the only son of Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, created Viscount in 1957, and Mary Adelaide Somes Colyer-Ferguson. He was born at Ightham Mote, which was owned by his maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas Colyer-Fergusson. Monckton's sister, Valerie Goulding, founded the Irish Central Remedial Clinic and became a member of the Seanad Éireann. His father was a British lawyer and politician, and became chief legal advisor to King Edward VIII during the Abdication Crisis in 1936.
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In 1973, von Finckenstein entered into the federal public service as a Legal Advisor in the Department of Justice. He would go on to occupy senior roles within the Departments of Justice, Industry and External Affairs. As Senior General Counsel in the Trade Negotiations Office, he was the chief legal advisor to Simon Reisman during the negotiations that led to the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement. He played a key role in developing the mechanism to resolve disputes and was in charge of its implementation.
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Ofori Boateng begun as an Assistant State Attorney, solicitor and advocate, and district magistrate until his appointment as deputy judicial secretary in 1969. From 1973 until 1976, he was the administrative head of the Ghana Law Reform Commission. In 1976, he became the chief legal advisor on Environmental problems at the United Nations, he served in this capacity until1981. He returned to Ghana after his stint at the United Nations and took up an appointment as the Director of Legal Education (head of Ghana School of Law).
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The Attorney General of Myanmar () is the Government of Myanmar's chief legal advisor, and also appears on behalf of the Burmese government in civil and criminal cases. The Office of the Attorney General was established in 1948 under the 1947 Constitution of Myanmar and 1948 Attorney General of the Union Act. From 1974 through 1988, the post was called the Chairman of the Council of People's Attorney. The present law, the 2010 Attorney General of the Union Law was promulgated on 28 October 2010.
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Skilled staff sought employment opportunities elsewhere in the economy. From 1948 to 1951 the General Manager of the Railways Department, Francis William Aickin, advocated electrification of the entire line, despite protests from his engineering staff. Aickin had previously been Staff Superintendent and Chief Legal Advisor to the Department and considered using diesel locomotives for trains on the NIMT to be too expensive. He turned his attention to electrification, mainly because he saw that it could relieve the coal situation and prevent high expenditure on imported fuels.
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His specialty areas are the Law of Treaties, Corporate Financing, Mergers and Acquisitions as well as Conveyancing and Trademarks. He runs a private law firm in the names of Mbidde & Co Advocates and the Mbidde Foundation of which he is the patron is also a legal based NGO. He usually has joint instructions on high-profile cases with Justin Semuyaba of Semuyaba Yiga & Co Advocates. He has been the brain behind many of the cases filed by Uganda's Democratic Party, he being the Chief Legal Advisor of the political party.
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The Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution was Telford Taylor. The indictment was filed on May 3, 1947; the trial lasted from August 27, 1947, until July 30, 1948. Of the 24 defendants arraigned, 13 were found guilty on one or the other counts of the indictment and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one and one half to eight years, including time already served; 10 defendants were acquitted of all charges. Max Brüggemann (Farben's chief legal advisor) was removed from the trial and his case discontinued on September 9, 1947, due to medical reasons.
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The Legal Department (Juridiska avdelningen, LEDS JUR) provides legal support to all organizational units in the Swedish Armed Forces. The department consists of three sections: the Section for Operational law (Operativjuridiska sektionen, LEDS JUR OP), the Section for Civil Law (Civilrättsliga sektionen, LEDS JUR CIV), and the Section for Administrative Law (Förvaltningsjuridiska sektionen, LEDS JUR FÖRV). The department also administers the Office of the Swedish Armed Forces Personnel Responsibility Committee (Försvarsmaktens personalansvarsnämnds kansli, FPAN). The Chief Legal Advisor is Director of the Legal Department and is also the Swedish Armed Forces' head of administration (förvaltningschef).
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The minister of justice and attorney general of Canada (MoJAG; ) is a dual role portfolio in the Canadian Cabinet. In the role of Minister of Justice (), the officeholder serves as the minister of the Crown responsible for the Department of Justice and the justice portfolio. In the role of Attorney General (), the officeholder litigates on behalf of the Crown and serves as the chief legal advisor to the Government of Canada. Most prosecution functions of the attorney general have been assigned to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
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Earl G. Matthews as a Lieutenant Colonel (LTC), 2015, District of Columbia National Guard In addition to his role as a civilian political appointee and White House staff member, Matthews concurrently serves as a Colonel (COL) within the United States Army, District of Columbia, National Guard (DCNG). Matthews serves in the role of Staff Judge Advocate (SJA) for Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ). As the Staff Judge Advocate for the DCNG, COL Matthews reports directly to the Commanding General and serves as the chief legal advisor on all matters regarding the DCNG.
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In 1972, a letter bomb was sent to him, which was defused."11 More Letter Bombs Found", The Sydney Morning Herald, accessed 24 June 2010 He was appointed Ambassador-at-Large in 1974. He was Vice Chairman of Delegation to the First and Second United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, and from 1973 to 1982 he was Chairman of the Delegation to the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and a member of the Drafting Committee of the UNCLOS. In 1993, he acted as Serbia's chief legal advisor.
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The Attorney General of West Virginia is the chief legal advisor to the West Virginia state government and is the state's chief law enforcement officer. The office was created by Article VII, Section 1 of the first Constitution of West Virginia in 1863.Constitution of West Virginia (1863) Article VII, § 1. Under the current state constitution (1872), the attorney general is an executive department-level state constitutional officer, along with the governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, and commissioner of agriculture.Constitution of West Virginia (1872) Article VII, § 1.
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Eli Rubenstein was born in Toronto to Isadore Rubenstein and Esther Rubenstein (née Greenblatt). His father, born in Canada, was the son of immigrants from Tarlow and Ożarów, Poland. His mother was born in Szatmárcseke, a village in Eastern Hungary, but fled with her family to the US in 1941 just before Nazi Germany closed the borders. He is the first cousin of Donald Trump's chief legal advisor and United States Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, and the first cousin once removed of anti-war activist Robert Greenblatt.
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Smuts was not elected, but Louis Botha appointed him to be the chief legal advisor to the Transvaal delegation. In this way, Smuts took a key role in debating the complex legal and semantic arguments. During the debates, Smuts used his knowledge of both military and legal aspects, of government and of academia, to guide the delegation. His mastery of English, of Afrikaans, and of High Dutch allowed him to speak before others, and, unlike at Bloemfontein, no man dared to speak over the one who had so successfully attacked the Cape.
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The Chancellor of Justice () is by law a direct subject of the Government of Sweden, the chief legal advisor to the government and the Minister, represents Sweden in civil litigation, and also has oversight responsibility similar to that of an ombudsman. The Chancellor also has duties with respect to the Freedom of the Press Act and the Fundamental Laws on Freedom of Expression, two of the four constituent pieces of the Constitution of Sweden. The Chancellor is the sole prosecutor in cases concerning offences against the freedom of the press and the freedom of expression.
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Hewitt served as General Counsel of the United States General Services Administration from 1993 to 1998, overseeing the legal activities and responsibilities of the agency. She served as GSA's chief ethics official, as chief legal advisor to the Administrator and other GSA officials, and as a member of GSA's management committee. While at GSA, Hewitt served as a government member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and as a member of the President's Interagency Council on Women. She also served as a continuing education lecturer on procurement law reform, procurement integrity, alternative dispute resolution, and government law office management.
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Historically, the Lord Advocate was the equivalent for Scotland of the Attorney General for England and Wales, being a legal advisor to the King of Scotland. After the Acts of Union 1707, the Lord Advocate became the chief legal advisor to the British government in respect of Scotland. Under constitutional reforms enacted in 1999, the Lord Advocate has become an officer of the Scottish Government, while the United Kingdom Government is advised on Scots law by the Advocate General for Scotland, a position created in 1999. The Lord Advocate is assisted by the Solicitor General for Scotland.
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He completed his Law Honours Degree and stood second in the Lahore University. He practiced as a lawyer for a few years in Gurgaon and later on became the Public Prosecutor of undivided Punjab to be posted across various cities – like Sialkot, Lyalpur, Gujranwala and Gurdaspur. He was the first legal advisor of the War & Supply Department based out of Lahore and was the first legal advisor of Special Police Establishment, which was transferred to the Home Department in 1946 under the leadership of Sardar Patel. He continued in his capacity as the Chief Legal Advisor till February 1951.
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In 1860, Swan was chosen president of the Columbus and Xenia Railroad Company; he was also chief legal advisor of that company and of the Little Miami Railroad. In 1869 he was appointed general solicitor of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway Company, where he served for ten years, until failing health compelled resignation. When Swan died at his home in Columbus in 1884, he left three sons and two daughters. His funeral was at Trinity Church, and burial was at Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, next to his wife, Hanna Ann Andrews, originally from Rochester, New York, whom he had married in January of 1833.
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During his time in Zanzibar in 1961, Alhaji Swanzy successfully obtained the acquittal of about 80 members of the Afro- Shirazi Party who had been indicted for murder in the riots which erupted in that country in 1960. In Gambia, Alhaji Kwaw-Swanzy secured the acquittal of the former Gambian President, Sir Dauda Jawara and several members of his Progressive Peoples' Party for electoral malpractices and fraud in 1962. In recognition of his distinguished professional services in Zanzibar, the Zanzibar government appointed him Attorney General and chief legal advisor to the Zanzibar government in 1983. In 1972 he represented Ghana in the Islamic conference at Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
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In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge nominated him to be judge advocate general of the Army with the rank of major general, a position he held until 1928 when he retired from the Army. In 1927, it was thought he would succeed Leonard Wood as Governor-General of the Philippines, but Coolidge instead chose past and future cabinet member Henry L. Stimson. In February 1930, Hull served as Chief Legal Advisor to Stimson's successor as Governor General of the Philippines, Dwight F. Davis. He served in that position until 1932, when President Herbert C. Hoover appointed him Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
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Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Cahill was in the United States Air Force from 1942 to 1946, and then received a Bachelor of Science degree from Saint Louis University in 1949. He received a Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1951, and was thereafter in private practice in St. Louis until 1954. He was an assistant circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis from 1954 to 1961, and then returned to private practice while serving as a special assistant circuit attorney from 1961 to 1964. He was the chief legal advisor for the Missouri NAACP from 1958 to 1965.
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He became chief legal advisor for London and North Eastern Railway in 1943, a post he held until the LNER was nationalised. In light of his service, on 1 November 1947 the LNER named An A4 by Any Other Name an LNER A4 Pacific after him Fotopic.Net Just before nationalisation, Beevor was acting chief general manager for LNER in June 1947, after which he became Chief Secretary and legal advisor for the British Transport Commission between 1947 and 1951. Beevor was Managing Director of Brush Group Ltd between 1954 and 1958, as the company pushed into producing diesel locomotives for the newly founded British Railways, to replace their steam fleet.
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Mario Montoto (born December 23, 1956 in La Plata) is an Argentinian businessman and politician. His company Codesur provides military products and services to the Argentinian military and other clients, and the firm's Global View division supplies surveillance cameras to Buenos Aires and other municipalities. Montoto is well known for his background as a member of the Montoneros, a Peronist-left guerilla group of the 1970s for which he served as the chief legal advisor and financial officer. He is equally well known for his subsequent transformation into a friend and ally of successive Argentinian presidents, as well as other politicians and businessmen, his connections with whom are considered to be the principal reason for his business success.
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MacArthur was acquainted with Patrick Connolly, the then Attorney General, who was the chief legal advisor to the Irish Government. Both attended a match in Croke Park, several days after the murder, and this led to a discussion between Connolly, MacArthur, and the then Garda Commissioner, Patrick McLoughlin, regarding the murder (MacArthur even asked McLoughlin about the investigation of the "dreadful" murder). On 13 August 1982, after a massive search, MacArthur was arrested on the private property of Connolly, where he had been staying for some time as a guest. Connolly, who had been getting ready for holiday, continued on his journey to the United States and did not give any interview to the Gardaí on the matter.
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Johnson in 1997 sought election to a four-year term as Columbus city attorney, who prosecutes misdemeanors within the city limits, defends the city in civil cases, and acts as the city's chief legal advisor with a budget of about $7 million with 140 employees. Johnson was endorsed by the Franklin County Republican Party and, as no other Republican filed, did not face a primary election. "Of all the jobs that are out there, that's the one I'm most qualified for right now," he told The Columbus Dispatch in January. He faced Janet E. Jackson, a former municipal court judge appointed by the city council that month to complete the term of Ron O'Brien, who had been elected Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney.
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The Attorney General for India is the Indian government's chief legal advisor, and is primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. They can be said to be the advocate from government's side. They are appointed by the President of India on advice of Union Cabinet under Article 76(1) of the Constitution and holds office during the pleasure of the President. They must be a person qualified to be appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court (They must have been a judge of some high court for five years or an advocate of some high court for ten years or an eminent jurist, in the opinion of the President and must be a citizen of India.) The 15th and current Attorney General is K. K. Venugopal.
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The office was created by Emperor Constantine I (), with the duties of drafting of laws and the answering of petitions addressed to the emperor. Although he functioned as the chief legal advisor of the emperor and hence came to exercise great influence, his actual judicial rights were very limited.. Thus from 440 he presided, jointly with the praetorian prefect of the East, over the supreme tribunal in Constantinople which heard appeals (the so-called causae sacrae, since these cases were originally heard by the emperor) from the courts of the diocesan vicarii and the senior provincial governors of spectabilis rank. According to the Notitia Dignitatum, the quaestor held the rank of vir illustris and did not have a staff (officium) of his own, but was attached a number of aides (adiutores) from the departments of the sacra scrinia.Notitia Dignitatum, Pars Orient.
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After the election of 2000, George W. Bush appointed Taft to serve as chief legal advisor to the United States Department of State under Secretary of State Colin Powell, with whom he was reportedly friends. This appointment was technically a significantly lower appointment than he had held in other administrations, but it permitted him to work with his wife, Julia Taft, a top State Department official in charge of refugees who also served during the Clinton administration. While serving as Legal Adviser, Taft wrote two seminal law journal articles regarding the views of the United States on the legality of the use of military force. First, in connection with the decision of the International Court of Justice in the Oil Platforms case, Taft countered a series of propositions that the court appeared to accept regarding the principles governing the use of force.
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Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao (born in 1942 in Andhra Pradesh, India) also known as Sreenivasa Rao Pemmaraju or Dr. P.S. Rao, is a distinguished Indian international lawyer that headed the Legal and Treaties Division, Ministry of External Affairs, India, and was the chief legal advisor of India on international law matters from 1985 to 2002. He was Judge AD HOC of International Court of Justice in the case concerning sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Pateh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore) (2004–2008). He was a member of the International Law Commission from 1987 to 2006 and a Special Rapporteur for the subject of Prevention and Liability. International Law Commission and Chairman of International Law Commission Presently, he is a Special adviser in the office of the Attorney-General, State of Qatar and Visiting Professor at the Center for International law studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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In 1885, S. W. Sanderson, who was the Chief Legal Advisor for the Southern Pacific Railroad, decided to sue Santa Clara County in California because they were trying to regulate the railroad's activity. His claim, in part, was that because a railroad was a 'person' under the constitution, local governments couldn't 'discriminate' against it by having different laws and taxes in different places. When the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, , came before Justice Waite in the US Supreme Court, Sanderson asserted that 'corporate persons' should be treated the same as 'natural (or human) persons.' and although the court specifically did not rule on it the court recorder John Chandler Bancroft Davis inserted the following dictum in the headnotes: > The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the > provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a > State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of > the laws, applies to these corporations.
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Burke was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 30, 1898. During World War I, Burke served in the United States Army. In 1920, he graduated from the College of the Holy Cross and in 1923, he graduated from Western Reserve University School of Law In 1930, he became as assistant county prosecutor. In 1937, the Ohio Attorney General, Herbert S. Duffy commissioned an investigation of an election fraud case in Lawrence County, Ohio. Burke was appointed as the special counsel to prosecute the case of six people accused of breaking into the election board and tampering with votes for the county commissioner’s race. In 1941, Burke became the Director of Law for Cleveland, the city’s chief legal advisor. With the election of Frank Lausche as Governor of Ohio in 1944, Burke, as law director, was first in the line of succession to replace him. Burke has to stand for re-election in his own right later in 1945, defeating Ray C. Miller with nearly 68% of the vote.
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