Use one authority record per real person or organization. Source-specific roles and credit order belong in Source Contributions.
Identity
Canonical identity
Record the preferred public name and normalized Sort Name. For people, separate given, middle, family, and suffix fields when known.
Disambiguation
Record affiliations, dates, pseudonyms, similarly named people, or other details needed to prevent mistaken identity.
Authority summary
Federal district judge and author of the 1926 Motlow opinion. The authority record is limited to his role in this source; no unrelated biography is inferred.
Verification note
Personal name is anchored by the opinion's judicial byline. No ORCID applies.