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

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In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. In 1948, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat took a job as a legal secretary at the NAACP in New York City.

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

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One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. In his memoir, the late Justice John Paul Stevens reported that he believed the court would use the Pennsylvania case as an opportunity to overrule Roe v.

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