| Notes: | Title from attached base.
"[Copyright] The Green Bag, Inc. 2009"-- at back of base.
Gift to subscribers of the Green Bag journal.
"Bobble Dobbles, by Alexander Global Promotions, Bellevue, WA., Made in China"-- Label on bottom of base.
Justice Blackmun stands on a grassy field, wearing a baseball hat, and holding a volume of United States reports 410 Oct term 1972 in his left hand while resting his right arm on a removeable Louisville Slugger baseball bat with the words Nice Guy. In front of him is a baseball secured by bookends labelled 497 U.S. 154.
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| Summary: | A Minnesota Twins fan (thus the colors of his cap), Justice Blackmun referred to himself as "old number three" because he was President Richard Nixon's third choice--after Judges Clement Haynsworth and Harrold Carswell, both of whom were rejected by the Senate--to replace Justice Abe Fortas on the Supreme Court. No one in the history of the Supreme Court is more thoroughly associated with a single decision than is Justice Blackmun with Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). In a not-so-boring tax case, Justice Blackmun spoke for the Court in Portland Golf Club v. CIR, 497 U.S. 154 (1990), holding that under I.R.C. 512, "any losses incurred as a result of petitioner's nonmember sales may be offset against its investment income only if the nonmember sales were undertaken with an intent to profit." Justice Blackmun's opinion in the Court's most recent baseball antitrust case, Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972), famously features a list of "many names, celebrated for one reason or another, that have sparked the diamond and its environs." When confronted with his failure to include New York Giants great Mel Ott on the list, Blackmun reportedly exclaimed, "I will never forgive myself!" To commemorate the oversight, some of his clerks gave him a genuine Louisville Slugger* "Mel Ott" bat accompanied by an engraved reminder. The packaging for the Justice Blackmun doll features, among other things, a clerk-made jurisprudential trading card "Bats: Left Throws: Left (Except in 4th Amendment Cases)"
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