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ORAL HISTORY OF ROBERT KOPP
Index
9/11, 231
Abramson, Fred, 72
ACA. See Affordable Care Act
advancement of gay rights, 83
See also Homosexuality, Defense of Marriage Act
adverse effects of tobacco, 225
See also Nader, Ralph
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), 29, 235-239
Commerce Clause argument, 239
Taxing Clause, 239
Agger, Carolyn, 27
Agnew, Spiro, 129
amicus filings, 34, 132-33, 142, 183-84, 229-30
anti_Semitism, 23, 92
Ardrey, Robert, 14
Armstrong, Daniel, 116
Armstrong, Scott, 213
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, 233
Autry, Gene, 14, 15
Babcock, Barbara, 164, 166, 168, 169, 171, 173
Babson Institute (now Babson College), 12
Babson, Roger, 12
Baldwin, Katherine, 72
Barthelmes, Wesley, 100
Base Closing Commission, 205
Bazelon, David, 35-36, 40, 43-44, 73, 83, 132
Becker, Jo (author, Forcing the Spring), 249
Bell, Griffin, 166-67
Bernstein, Carl, 126
Biddle, Barbara, 205
Bolten, Joshua, 217
Bondy, Tom, 211
Bork, Robert, 123, 128, 133
Brandeis, Louis, 42
Breitenstein, Jean, 93
Brennan, William, 159
Breyer, Stephen, 167
Brinkmann, Beth, 236
Brown, Harold, 14
Brown, Hermione Kopp (aunt), 13, 17, 19, 22, 54
George Washington Law School, 8
Brown, Larry (cousin), 17
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Brown, Louis, 13, 19
Bulger, Whitey, 202-3
Bush I administration, 70
Bush II administration, 187, 216, 218
embryonic stem cell research, 235
Bush, George W., 230
Byce, Clark, 7
Cardozo, Benjamin, 42
Carter administration, 70, 83, 154, 156, 163, 175
Carter, Jimmy, 161
Casey, Margaret (English teacher), 46
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 157
Chambers, Richard, 82, 84, 91, 230
Civil Service Commission, 83
Clark, Tom, 35
Clinton administration, 84, 103, 110, 189, 225, 241, 244
healthcare system reform, 232-35
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 214, 232, 234-35
Clinton, William (Bill), 218, 240
Commerce Clause, 238
Cox, Archibald, 127, 129
Daly, John, 223
Daniel, Alice, 162
Days, Drew, 173
D.C. Circuit. See U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Dean, John, 71, 132
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), 70, 182
Dellinger, Walter, 175, 189
Depression, 4, 8, 11
discrimination against Jewish lawyers by the bar, 42
Do Not Call Register, 231
Defense of Marriage Act, 182, 246-47, 249, 250-51
litigation, 70, 83-84, 246-47
rational basis or stricter standard of scrutiny, 248
DOMA. See Defense of Marriage Act
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, 240-44, 246
Repeal Act, 245
Douglas, Willliam, 44, 109-10, 204
dress for court, 196
Easterbrook, Frank, 147-49
Edwards, Harry, 192
Elman, Phil, 25, 34
Ervin, Sam, 131
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Fahy, Chrles, 155
False Claims Act, 210-11
FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation
FDA. See Food and Drug Administration
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 233
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 66
Federal Records Act, 214-15
Federal Tort Claims Act, 80, 85, 201, 202
“damaged baby” cases, 201
sonic booms, 85
Federal Trade Commission, 231
First Amendment, 156, 160, 229, 231
Flentje, August, 249
Food and Drug Act, 225, 232
Food and Drug Administration, 225-26
Forcing the Spring, 249
Ford administration, 103
Ford, Gerald, 137
Fortas, Abe, 25
United States Supreme Court, 27
Frank, Steve, 154
Frankfurter, Felix, 25, 26, 42
personality, 24
Freedom of Information Act, 71, 214, 215
Freund, Paul, 25
Fried, Charles, 97
FTC. See Federal Trade Commission
Gang, Adolph (maternal grandfather), 9, 11, 12
Lithuania, 1
furniture store, 10
Monetary Reform and Federal Insurance, 11
Passaic, New Jersey, 10
Gang, Kopp and Tyre (later Gang, Tyre, Ramer and Brown), 14-15, 19, 22
Gang, Martin (uncle), 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 38, 54
Boalt Law School at Berkeley, 10
Harvard College, 10
McCarthy Era, 15
Gang, Violet (mother), 9
District Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, 22
sexual harassment, 22
Gang, Kopp and Tyre, 22
Hollywood High School, 13
USC Gould School of Law, 21
Law Review and number two in her class, 21
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Washington Wellesley Club, 99
Wellesley College, 10,13, 88
Garner, Brian, 195
Gay(s) See also Homosexuality, Defense of Marriage Act
GEICO, 26
George Washington University Law School, 22
Ginsburg, Douglas, 236
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 34, 200
Gonzales,, Alberto, 218
Gray, Patrick, 116-17
Green, Edith, 100
Green, Joyce Hens, 162
Greenberg, Clara, 68
Griswold, Erwin, 94-95, 97-98, 108, 15
Guantanamo, 32, 182, 232
Haitian immigrants
refugee crisis, 222-23
Yale Law School, 221
Harvard Law School, 8, 47, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 115
Hatch Act, 105, 106
Hawkens, Roy, 205
Healthcare litigation, 29, 70, 182, 225, 232-35, 238
Hedge, Brook, 154
Hertz, Mike, 159, 210
Herwig, Barbara, 116
HHS. See United States Department of Health & Human Services
Hills, Carla, 130, 131, 133, 137
Historical Society of the D.C Circuit, 156, 165, 206
Hitler, Adolph, 17
Hollander, (Morton) Mort, 61-62, 72, 74-75, 77, 85, 118, 120, 122, 124, 138, 139, 150-52, 165,
168-69, 171, 175, 177, 185
Satus of Forces agreements, 113
Homosexuality, 84
discharge from government service, 80-84, 241
gays in the military, 84, 241-44
rights, 240
See also Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Defense of Marriage Act
Hoover, J. Edgar, 66, 117
Hope, Bob, 14
HUD. See United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Hustler (magazine), 230
individual mandate of the healthcare law, 238
Iran, 68-69, 221
hostage crisis, 161
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litigation in Europe, 169
See also Shah of Iran
Irell and Manella, 20
Jackson, Robert, 41
Jaffe, Irving (Irv), 130, 132, 133, 134
JAG (Judge Advocate General), 62
Japanese exclusion cases, 31
Johnson administration, 82
Jones, Paula, 218, 220
Kagan, Elena, 238
Kanter, Bill, 224
Keisler, Peter, 187
Kennedy Center, 65
Kennedy, John F., 49, 58
assassination, 57
Kennedy, Robert
assassination, 58
Kent State, 141
Kessler, Gladys, 226
Keynes, John Maynard, 12
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
assassination, 58, 119
Kingsley, Benjamin, 249
Klein, Alisa, 226
Kneedler, Edwin, 219
Koh, Harold, 222
Kopp, Bob (son), 252
Kopp, Emily (daughter), 101, 252
Kopp, Frances Burger (paternal grandmother), 2, 13, 17
Barnard College, 3
reader for MGM, 5
Kopp, Harold (grandfather), 1, 5, 13, 17
Brooklyn Law School, 2
drugstores, 2
pharmacy school, 2
Kopp, Nancy (wife), 105, 106
Maryland House of Delegates, 100
Maryland State Treasurer, 101, 178
Kopp, Robert (Bob) (father), 6,13, 24
Army (later Air Force), 18
Columbia College, 7
death from leukemia, 21
Harvard College, 46, 47, 52
Jewish quota, 23
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Harvard Law School, 6, 24
Law Review, 7
Loeb & Loeb, 9
MGM legal department, 9
United States Department of Justice, 18
Deputy Solicitor General, 18
“Frankfurter Boys,” 42
Office of the Solicitor General, 25, 28
Tax Division, 28
Kopp, Robert – Personal
Air Force Officer Candidates School, 62
anti_Semitism, 23, 92
Army Reserve Unit, 62
BCC (Bethesda Chevy Chase High School), 38, 40, 46
integation, 45
birth in Los Angeles, California, 1
Casey, Margaret (English teacher), 46
Cuban Missile crisis, 49
Harvard College, 95, 97
lack of social integration, 47
Harvard Law School, 55, 56, 59
faculty diversity, 59
Ladies Day, 56, 57
women and minorities, 56
high school in Los Angeles, 37
hobbies, 253
Junior ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps), 37
Nixon/Kennedy election impact, 49
Oberlin College, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 54, 55, 58, 59
diversity, 51, 56, 72
government major, 50
Supreme Court cases, 52
Syracuse, New York, 6
Western High School, 37
Koop, Robert – Professional
A12 aircraft cancellation, 204
admiralty cases, 80
advice to a young law graduate, 253
Civil Service Commission cases, 80
concern with White House dealing directly with career attorneys., 70
defending the public fisc, 204, 210
Defense of Marriage Act, 246
D.C. Circuit Advisory Committee on Procedures, 191
executive orders, 216
Federal Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, 149, 193
Food and Drug litigation, 232
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Gay rights, 240
Guantanamo litigation, 32
healthcare litigation involving the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, 29, 232
impoundment, 123, 152
injunctive relief, 80
Iranian immigration case, 221
mediation process, 90
Medicare litigation, 232
Nixon administration, 40
recusal in tobacco case, 228
Social Security litigation, 232
thoughts on Ninth Circuit split into two circuits, 78
United States Department of Justice
Civil Division, 25, 60-62, 64, 69, 78-79, 89, 107, 109, 115-17, 119, 121-22, 126-
27, 129-30,133-34, 137, 146, 148, 151, 157, 159-60, 163, 172-74, 178-79,
182, 186-89, 199, 200, 208, 210, 234, 238, 247-48, 254
Appellate Staff (formerly Appellate Section), 25, 61-64, 72, 75, 77-78, 84, 101,
117-18, 122-23, 131, 147, 151-52, 164, 166-69, 171-72, 176, 178, 181-82,
185, 191, 199, 206, 228, 232, 253-54
Assistant Chief, 122
head of the Appellate Staff, 75, 77, 89, 101
Honors Program, 60, 62
manager role, 33
moot court., 86
litigation procedures, 89, 132
supervisor, 84
Kopp, Shepard (uncle), 2
Kopper, Fannie (maternal grandmother), 9
Kornblith, Barbara, 99
Kornblith, Nancy, 99
Koslowe, Neil, 84, 151
Kreeger, David, 25, 69, 70, 98, 182
GEICO investment, 26
Kreeger Museum, 26
Kuhl, Carolyn, 179, 180
Lamberth, Royce, 207, 209-10, 233, 236, 237s
Cobell (case)
reassigned, 209
Secretary of Interior contempt, 208
Lee, Rex, 138
Letter, Doug, 153, 206, 211, 219-20
Leventhal, Harold, 43, 111, 125, 143
Levy, Ed, 137
Loeb & Loeb, 9, 13, 14
Long, Huey, 30
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“Long’s Gang,” 30
LSU (Louisiana State University), 30
MacKinnon, George, 155, 163
Marshall, Thurgood, 34, 153, 159
McCarthy, Joseph
House Committee on Un-American Activities (“McCarthy Committee), 15-17
“McCarthy era,” 15-17
McCree, Wade, 162
McGowan, Carl, 125, 155, 163, 192
McGrath, J. Paul, 176, 179, 180
McIntosh, Scott, 206, 219
Medicaid, 239
Medicare, 232
Miers, Harriet, 216-217
Mikva, Abner, 163
Millett, Patricia, 214
Mitchell, John, 126, 137, 138
Monetary Reform and Federal Insurance, 11
See also Gang, Adolph
Monroe, Marilyn, 14
Mooney, Carol Ann, 194
Morrison, Alan, 213, 214
Nader, Ralph, 224
National Institutes of Health, 236-37
National Security Council, 214
Nixon, Richard, 40, 49, 71, 96, 98, 115-17, 121-22, 125, 127-32, 137-38
impeachment, 122, 131
proceedings, 127
impoundment issue, 122
Obama administration, 83, 218, 222, 225, 232, 235-37, 241, 244-45
Obama, Barack, 235-37, 244
Panama Canal, 154
Paper Chase (television series), 57
Perlman, Phil, 34, 35
Peter and the Wolf, 6
Philippine veterans, 200-
Pickering, John, 26, 192
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering founder, 27
Pickering, Leslie, 26
Powell, Colin, 241
Presidential Records Act, 214
Progressive (magazine), 159
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Public Vessels Act, 151
Raum, Arnold (step-father), 7, 26, 36
candidate for appointment to the D.C. Circuit, 35
first case argued in new Supreme Court building, 28
Hirabayashi case, 30
Korematsu case, 30
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 27-28
Roosevelt Democrat, 27
United States Department of Justice
challenges to Social Security Act, 29
grand jury indictments against former Louisiana governor, 30
Principal Assistant to the Solicitor General, 28
Tax Division, 28, 36
Reagan administration, 70, 98, 103, 109, 138, 176-80, 183-86, 213
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 27-28, 41
Reed, Stanley, 41
Reynolds, Bradford, 108, 109
Richardson, Elliot, 127-30
Richey, Robert, 123
Robb, Charles, 163
Robinson, Aubrey, 111
Robinson, Spottswood, 163
Rogers, John, 190
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 27, 42, 69, 70, 98, 182
Rosenberg, Bea, 72
Rosenthal, Alan, 71, 85, 97, 165
Ruckelshaus, William, 127-28, 130
EPA Administrator, 116
Saturday Night Massacre, 127, 130, 133
Saxbe, William, 132
Schaitman, Len, 120
Schenck, Sonia Burger (great-grandmother), 4, 6
Schenck, Joseph (great-uncle), 4
Schenck, Nicholas (great-uncle), 4
Schultz, Bill, 225
Secret Service. See United States Secret Service
Sentelle, David, 230
Shah of Iran, 161
See also Iran
Silberman, Laurence, 133, 233
Silberman, Linda, 189
Singer, Michael (Mike), 223, 248-49
Sirica, John, 126
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Snepp, Frank, 157, 158
Social Security Act, 29, 232
Status of Forces agreements, 113
Stein, Mike, 121
Stern, Mark, 226-27, 234
Stern, Robert, 25
Stevens, John, 159
Stewart, Malcolm, 219
Suits in Admiralty Act, 151
Swaine, Ed, 223
Syracuse, New York, 6
Tamm, Edward, 83, 125, 163
Tax Court. See United States Tax Court
Taylor, Elizabeth, 14, 54
Technology, 254
Tucker Act, 204
Tyre, Norman, 14
United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, 74, 77
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 65, 132, 134, 136, 154-55,
157, 162, 166, 200, 209, 214, 217, 226, 231, 233, 236
court’s internal EEO process, 195
task force on gender equality, 195
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 219
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 222
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit., 78, 79, 204, 205
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 167
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 203, 247, 249, 250, 251
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 158
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 78, 79, 81, 84, 91, 92, 112, 242, 245, 246
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 74, 75, 144, 147, 249, 250
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 148, 160
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 190
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 86, 93, 94, 231
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 94
United States Court of Federal Claims, 204
United States Department of Defense, 241-42, 243, 245, 246
United States Department of Energy, 161
United States Department of Justice, 18, 30, 32, 35, 41, 43, 53, 60, 62, 65-66, 72, 95, 102, 115,
118, 124, 128-9, 130, 132, 135-37, 143, 169, 174, 199, 215, 241, 247-48, 250-51, 253
Civil Division, 66
Appellate Staff (formerly Appellate Section), 75, 77, 172
Federal Programs Branch, 105, 154, 162, 168, 172
reorganization, 164
Supreme Court Section, 69
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Civil Rights Division, 66, 109, 121, 172, 188, 247
Criminal Division
Appellate Section, 72
Environment Division (formerly Lands Division), 175, 207
Frauds Unit, 210
Honors Program, 185-89
Inspector General, 187
Just Us Kids day care center, 103
Office of Legal Policy, 247
Office of the Solicitor General, 28, 30, 33-34, 69, 89, 94, 108-09, 115, 148-50, 173, 183,
193, 219, 231-32, 236-37, 238
original purpose monetary claims against the U.S., 199
process recommendations, 95
professor-in-residence program, 189
Tax Division, 28
technology, 67
telecommuting, 103
women attorneys during World War II, 28
United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), 225
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 123, 124, 138, 152
United States District Court for the Central District of California, 245
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 65, 73-74, 76, 123, 132, 134, 137, 143,
154-55, 157, 159, 161-62, 166, 196, 201, 208, 216, 227, 237, 239, 247
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 203
United States District Court for the District of Oklahoma, 85
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 94
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 87-88
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 144
“Sovereign” District of New York, 75
United States House of Representatives, 154, 251
House Judiciary Committee, 134, 137
See also McCarthy, Joseph
United States Secret Service, 145, 230
United States Senate
Senate Select Committee, 131, 132, 134
United States Supreme Court, 28-29, 33, 41-42, 44, 52, 65, 73, 96, 106, 108, 110, 137, 140-42,
144, 150, 153, 158, 163, 183-85, 206, 212, 217, 219-20, 226, 229-30, 237-40, 242-43,
50-51
qualified immunity, 145
United States Tax Court 36, 44
veterans
reemployment rights after military service, 92-95
Philippine, 200-01
Vietnam War, 52, 60, 93, 107, 157
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Wald, Patricia, 163
Wallace, Larry, 29
Warren, Earl, 73
Washington Post, 126
Watergate, 71, 98, 117, 123, 125-27, 129-33, 135-38, 140
Weiner, Robert, 238
Weisl, Ed, 82, 119
West, Tony, 247, 248
Whitaker, Henry, 246
Wilkey, Malcolm, 143, 163
Willard, Richard, 186
Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (now Wilmer Cutler Hale & Dorr), 27
Wilson, Tom, 132
Wood, Harlington, 117
Woodward, Robert, 126
World War II, 8, 17, 22, 25, 30, 68-69, 93, 98, 200, 204, 205
Normandy invasion, 18, 19
Wright, J. Skelly, 44, 83, 163
Zener, Bob, 67, 108
