Talk:Byron White

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Contents 1 judicial experience 2 Inaccuracy 3 Quotation from Doe v Bolton 4 GA Fail 5 But he's not the real Whizzer White

[edit] judicial experience

The article says nothing about his pre-Supreme Court judicial experience... someone should fill that in. --Shallot 23:00, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

This has since been fixed. --Joy [shallot] 09:59, September 10, 2005

[edit] Inaccuracy

I question whether White was first in his class at Yale. It does appear he was first in his class at Colorado, but many biographies of him leave out the valedictorian at Yale Law School, which seems odd. Does anyone know of any reliable supporting documentation? It appears at least that there are alternating versions.

Examples: http://www.nfl.com/teams/story/PIT/5238763 ("high honors," not valedictorian) http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/04/15/white-obit.htm ("magna cum laude")

[edit] Quotation from Doe v Bolton

Personally I am not a big fan of quotations sections, quotations are cheap wisdom in my opinion. However White's description of Roe v Wade and Doe v. Bolton (in Doe v. B., note) as an exercise of "raw judicial power" is frequently cited. From time to time it is ascribed to Roe v. Wade but that would be impossible as Rehnquist wrote the dissent in that case and White simply concurred. It seemed notable to me. Stroika 16:52, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I believe the reference to being #1 in his class @ Yale Law School is correct http://www.medaloffreedom.com/ByronRaymondWhite.htm , as it is frequently cited. However the reference to leadership of Conservative Party @ Yale makes no sense (White had no time and Political union is primarily an undergraduate group) and this is the first I have seen, so I encourage editor to review. Realistically, the Tim LeHaye quote, while substantively meaningful, really doesn't belong as LeHaye is hardly a Supreme Court commentators or White afficiandos. Both are somewhat polemical references seeking to categorize White as "conservative," which is neither true or value-added.

[edit] GA Fail

I am failing this due to lack of references, there is a total of 1. Sections and paragraphs remain unreferenced, also don't wikilink solo years ex 1754. M3tal H3ad 08:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] But he's not the real Whizzer White

As I understand it, there was a football player in the 1920s named Byron White who was called "The Whizzer". Then a few years later this Byron White played college football, and he was called Whizzer White after the earlier Byron White, rather like Roger Barrett acquired the name Syd after another musician called Sid Barrett. This should be mentioned in the article, but I don't have source.  Randall Bart   Talk  06:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)