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

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As associate counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1960s, she helped litigate civil-rights cases in the South. In 1948, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat took a job as a legal secretary at the NAACP in New York City. Casey , in which he argued in support of Pennsylvania abortion restrictions.

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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. Just seven years later, Kennedy’s view would prevail. In Citizens United v.

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