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executor

[ig-zek-yuh-ter, ek-si-kyoo-ter] / ɪgˈzɛk yə tər, ˈɛk sɪˌkyu tər /


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Chief Justice John Roberts called that 90-year-old precedent, known as Humphrey’s Executor, a “dried husk,” suggesting that it has little relevance today.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Slaughter to decide on whether to overturn the Humphrey’s Executor decision.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

The lower courts all sided with her, citing the clear precedent in Humphrey’s Executor.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2025

In the 90-year-old ruling known as Humphrey's Executor, the court sided with another FTC commissioner who was fired by Franklin D Roosevelt.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

And there were, as before, the two great Councils of the People and the Commune; and still the three great officers who carried out their decrees, the Podestà, the Captain, the Executor of Justice.

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.




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