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Why is the case called Humphrey’s Executor v. United States<\/em>? Because William E. Humphrey died while the case was being litigated. His estate continued the case, seeking Humphrey’s backpay. Chief Justice Sutherland’s majority opinion states:<\/p>\n “William E. Humphrey, the decedent, on December 10, 1931, was nominated by President Hoover to succeed himself as a member of the Federal Trade Commission, and was confirmed by the United States Senate.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n While teaching this case in 2017, I joked that President Roosevelt removed William Humphrey from the FTC, and from the land of the living. That’s one way to make sure the courts do not reinstate him!<\/p>\n A person watching the lecture on YouTube heard the joke, and checked up on it. Humphrey’s obituary did not state a cause of death. But my viewer requested a copy of the death certificate<\/a> from the D.C. Department of Health. In fact, Humphrey’s executioner was cerebral hemorrhaging and arteriosclerosis. He died in his home. Humphrey was not assassinated.<\/p>\n There is one legal curiosity here: the certificate lists his occupation as “Retired.” That’s one way to put getting fired.<\/p>\n I’ve had this document in my archives for nearly eight years. With Humphrey’s Executor<\/em> on the chopping block, now seems like the right time to publish it.<\/p>\n The post William E. Humphrey's Death Certificate<\/a> appeared first on Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" His cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-111134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-policy","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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