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William Rufus Day  

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  • William Rufus Day (1849–1923) was a U.S. Supreme Court justice who is best known in Fourth Amendment circles for authoring the Court's opinion in Weeks v. United States (1914). Born in 1849 in Ravenna, Ohio, Day graduated from the University of Michigan in 1870. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Day, William Rufus]

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