Contributing Writer
emailAllen Pusey, the Journal’s former Editor and Publisher, retired from the magazine in 2016 but continues to write the Precedents column. Named editor and publisher in October 2011, Pusey first joined the ABA Journal staff as managing editor in 2007. He had been a reporter and special projects editor at the Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Times Herald and the El Paso Times. Pusey holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Feb. 2, 1980: Abscam bribery investigation revealed
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Jan. 29, 1912: Clarence Darrow indicted
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Oct. 21, 1876: John B. West brings case law to lawyers with the Syllabi
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Aug. 2, 1790: US conducts first constitutional census
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June 30, 1983: Closing the books on Peoples Temple
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April 17, 1905: New York’s bakeshop labor law overturned
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Feb. 29, 1984: Guilty plea in Three Mile Island disaster
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Dec. 13, 1920: The Bisbee deportations are upheld
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Nov. 30, 1920: Charlie Ponzi pleads guilty to larceny
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Aug. 15, 1876: Congress passes the ‘Sell or Starve’ Act
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June 15, 1992: Supreme Court upholds DEA’s kidnapping of Mexican doctor
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May 18, 1926: The strange disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
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March 27, 1876: Colfax massacre convictions tossed
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Jan. 13, 1914: Wright brothers awarded patent on flying machine
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Oct. 24, 1865: The ‘Demon of Andersonville’ is convicted
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Sept. 5, 1969: Murder charges in My Lai massacre
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July 18, 1940: Democrats nominate FDR for unprecedented 3rd term
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May 14, 1969: The Spectacular Fall of Abe Fortas
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March 9, 1916: Pancho Villa’s Battle of Columbus
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Nov. 18, 1883: US railroads enact standard time zones
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