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Grammar Giggle – Geographically Challenged

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See the errors below: For reference, our original flight was to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then on to Athens. The latest example of someone not paying attention was when a flight that we had booked last July for a cruise out of Athens, Greece, was changed by the airline.

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

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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. And in 1981, she wrote one of the first law-review articles on domestic violence. Cecilia Marshall (July 20, 1928 – Nov.

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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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