On August the 19th, at eight o'clock in the morning, the Resistance occupied the police headquarters - the Prefecture - on the north bank of the Seine and shortly after two o'clock the same day German forces attacked it.
The court did not split on political grounds: the four dissenters, for instance, included two conservative justices (William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas) and two moderate justices (Sandra Day O'Connor and John Paul Stevens).
O'Donoghue's victory was marred when he received a two-day ban (27 and 28 May) for using his whip with excessive frequency and not giving his mount time to respond.