Lauson Stone

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Lauson Harvey Stone (1905 in Manhattan -November 7, 1999 in Brooklyn), son of US Chief Justice Harlan Stone, was US a lawyer and civic leader.

In 1942, he was assigned by the War Department to be a defense lawyer for eight Nazi saboteurs involved in Operation Pastorius.

Stone received a bachelor's degree in 1925 from Harvard and a law degree in 1928 from Columbia.


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New York Times obituary

The Use of Military Tribunals, D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference, Remarks of the Chief Justice, June 14, 2002