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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization , David Beckwith published the original Supreme Court abortion leak. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Intrigued by the court’s deliberations in the pending case of Roe v. Sebastian Graber (Aug.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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She wrote in Lazy B that she “felt poorly prepared compared to the other freshmen,” but she was admitted to a program that allowed her to start law school at Stanford in her senior year, as one of only four women in her class. One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary.

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