Lauson Stone

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.

External Reference

[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E4DF163DF931A25752C1A96F958260 New York Times obituary]

[http://www.supremecourtus.gov/publicinfo/speeches/sp_06-14-02.html The Use of Military Tribunals, D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference, Remarks of the Chief Justice, June 14, 2002]