Allen Pusey, the Journal’s former Editor and Publisher, retired from the magazine in 2016 but continues to write the Precedents column. Named editor and publisher in October 2011, Pusey first joined the ABA Journal staff as managing editor in 2007. He had been a reporter and special projects editor at the Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Times Herald and the El Paso Times. Pusey holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Oct. 26-31, 1948: A deadly fog kills 20 in a Pennsylvania company town
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Sept. 24, 1962: Estes scandal goes to court
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June 20, 1981: Guilty verdicts in ‘Bayou of Pigs’ plot
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May 8, 1867: Trolley segregation ends in New Orleans
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March 28, 1898: Supreme Court affirms birthright citizenship of Wong Kim Ark
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Dec. 8, 1993: Supreme Court listens to John Fogerty
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Nov. 28, 1953: LSD and the death of a CIA scientist
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Sept. 25, 1930: U.S. names its first drug czar
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June 3, 1943: The zoot suit riots begin
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May 20, 1863: The 10th Supreme Court Justice
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Feb. 2, 1980: Abscam bribery investigation revealed
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Jan. 29, 1912: Clarence Darrow indicted
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Oct. 21, 1876: John B. West brings case law to lawyers with the Syllabi
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Aug. 2, 1790: US conducts first constitutional census
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June 30, 1983: Closing the books on Peoples Temple
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April 17, 1905: New York’s bakeshop labor law overturned
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Feb. 29, 1984: Guilty plea in Three Mile Island disaster
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Dec. 13, 1920: The Bisbee deportations are upheld
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Nov. 30, 1920: Charlie Ponzi pleads guilty to larceny
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Aug. 15, 1876: Congress passes the ‘Sell or Starve’ Act
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