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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20010121
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Byline: George Tucker

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CORRECTION: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - not his father - is responsible for the following quote noted in George Tucker's history column in Sunday's Hampton Roads section: ``If American law were to be represented by a single figure, skeptic and worshipper alike would agree that the figure would be one alone, and that one, John Marshall.'' Correction ran in The Virginian-Pilot on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 on page A2.

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T he 200th anniversary of one of the most significant milestones in American legal history will be marked on Feb. ...

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