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- ↑ "Confession of Error by the Solicitor General". Michigan Law Review. 74 (5): 1067–1083. April 1976. doi:10.2307/1287833. JSTOR 1287833.
- ↑ Rosen, Jeffrey (2018). William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series. New York: Time Books, Henry Holt & Co., p. 27
- ↑ United States v. Knox, 977 F.2d 815, 817 (3d Cir. 1992), cert. granted, 113 S. Ct. 2926, vacated and remanded, 114 S. Ct. 375 (1993), aff'd, 32 F.3d 733 (3d Cir. 1994), cert. denied, 1994 WL 512613 (U.S. Jan. 17, 1995).
- ↑ Rosenzweig, David M. (1993–1994). "Confession of Error in the Supreme Court by the Solicitor General". The Georgetown Law Journal . 82: 2079. Retrieved February 25, 2011.
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