Chapter Three
Photos
Photographs of people, places, and things mentioned in chapter three. The number on the left indicates the page on which the content of the photo is mentioned in the book. Many of the photos also link to additional material.
Page 236 -- A Los Angeles newsboy (the one wearing the fedora) at the corner of Hollywood and Vine around the time of the Hearst case. As the picture shows, the "newsboys" (or, sometimes, "newsvendors") represented by the Los Angeles Newsboys Local Industrial Union No. 75, C.I.O. were not necessarily all that young. In the words of the Court: "The [bargaining] units which the Board determined to be appropriate are composed of those who sell full-time at established spots. Those vendors, misnamed boys, are generally mature men, dependent upon the proceeds of their sales for their sustenance, and frequently supporters of families. Working thus as news vendors on a regular basis often for a number of years, they form a stable group with relatively little turnover, in contrast to schoolboys and others who sell as bootjackers, temporary and casual distributors."
Page 238 -- The Swift & Co. plant in Fort Worth, TX. A postcard from the first few decades of the 20th century showing the plant where Skidmore and his colleagues were engaged to wait (or were waiting to be engaged).
Page 243 -- The Chevron refinery in Richmond, California. This facility could be a single "source" under the bubble policy challenged in the case.
Page 254 -- A Mead Daily Planner of the sort at issue in U.S. v. Mead Corp. Is it bound? Is it a diary?
Page 256 -- FCC v. Fox. Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie at the 2003 Billboard Music Awards, when the latter offered her insights about the challenges of cleaning a Prada purse.
Page 328 – Historic Marker at Overton Park in Memphis, TN. Overton Park may be the only administrative law decision that gets a historic marker at the site of the controversy. For pictures of the park itself, the link will take you to the website of Citizens to Protect Overton Park — not the lawsuit, the organization, which, like the park itself, still seems to be going strong.
Page 338 -- Automatic seatbelts. A picture of an automatic seat belt, c. 1980, shown with the driver's door open. When the door is closed and the engine turned on, the piece at the top of the belt slides backward along a track, ending up behind the driver's left shoulder.
Page 343, n. 12 -- VW ad. In 1978, VW ran this ad touting its automatic belts. The ad observes: "Of course, by 1984 every new car in America must have a passive restraint system. Transportation Secretary Adams says so. But we didn't wait to be told. Only the Rabbit 'L' has automatic seatbelts today. And has had them since 1975." It also ends with a striking tag line: "Volkswagen doesn't think like any old car company. Volkswagen thinks like a mother." One vote for [m]aternalism as a justification for regulation!
Page 368 -- Any early version of the 2020 census form (this was sent to some households as part of a test) that included the controversial citizenship question that was removed from the final, official form. The photo links to a 2018 Census Bureau publication that offers the party-line justification for the question (scroll to p. 7).
Page 370 -- Plaintiffs in the Regents of the University of California case descending the Supreme Court steps after the oral argument in November 2019.