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

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

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At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways.

Read past years’ remembrances: 2021, 2020.

David Beckwith (Oct. 30, 1942 – Oct. 2, 2022)

Forty-nine years before the leaked opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, … Read the rest

The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

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The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. The unofficial barber of the justices. The woman who argued Roe v. Wade just a few years out of law school.

These were among the lives lost in 2021.

As we did last year, SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. Some were lawyers. Some … Read the rest