George Hutchinson, the man whose voice opened every session of the United States Supreme Court for a decade, including the oral arguments in Brown v. Board of Education, has died at 102. His three words, “Oyez, oyez, oyez,” were not the most consequential spoken during those landmark proceedings. But they were always the first.
Hutchinson served as the Court’s crier for virtually every case heard between 1952 and 1962, the Washington Post reported. His job was to announce the arrival of the justices and gavel the chamber to order, a role rooted in centuries of Anglo-American legal tradition that has since been folded into other duties at the Court. He was the last person to hold the position as a standalone office.
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