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ORAL HISTORY OF BRUCE TERRIS
Index
1500 Block Club, 137
1968 Democratic Chicago Convention, 190
Abel, Rudolf, 79
ACLU, 207
Administrative Law Review, 223
African-Americans
black-on-black crimes, 151
effect of drugs on the community, 168
jobs for youths, 174
relationship with police, 148-150
youth programs, 170
Ahlstrom. Sydney, 60
Alliance for Legal Action v. US Army Corps of Engineers, 224, 232, 245
Alliance for Public Justice, 214-215
American Academy of Political Science, 159
American Bar Association, 108, 133, 135
American Canoe Association, 237, 243
American Public Health Association, 213
Anacostia Assistance Corporation, 201-202, 206
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 159
anti-Semitism, 44, 46
Arnold & Porter, 207
Ash Council, 223, 227
assassination of President John Kennedy, 20, 100, 104-105, 187
assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, 105, 187, 188
Babylonian Talmud, 292
Baker v. Carr, 1, 3, 4, 7-10, 92, 93
Barnett, Wayne, 87, 287
Baroni, Monsignor Geno, 194
Barry, Marion, 103, 194
Bazelon, Judge David, 69, 230, 285
Better Homes, 139, 204
Black, Justice Hugo, 123, 280
Black Panthers, 259
Blackmun, Justice Harry, 211
black-on-black crimes, 151
Blumenthal, Senator Richard, 203
Bolling v. Sharpe, 195
Bork, Judge Robert, 256
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Boudin, Leonard, 118, 119, 122
Boudin, Judge Michael,
Brennan, Justice William, 280
briefs, 3, 8-9, 11, 13-15, 26, 29, 84, 87, 89, 113, 115, 119, 120, 229-230, 257
Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board, 120
Cox, Archibald, 110-111
Bush v. Gore, 262
Grape Workers Union, 212
learning to write, 78
national environmental organizations, 228-230
Office of the Solicitor General, 109, 286-287
Supreme Court, 90, 110, 127
Brinton, Crane, 173
Brooklyn, New York, 162
Brown, Michael, 163
Brown v. Board of Education, 63, 93, 123, 196, 294, 300
Brownell, Attorney General Herbert, 92
Brownell Junior High School, 42, 53
Bush v. Gore, 262
Bustos v. Saxbe, 211
Cahn, Edgar, 108, 129
Cahn, Jean, 108, 129
Califano, Joseph (Joe), 178
Camper-Cahn, Jean, See Cahn, Jean
Carliner, David, 194
Carter Administration, 240, 246
Catania, David, 200
Center for Law and Social Policy, 125, 206, 208-215, 217, 221-222
Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, The, 147
Chavez, Cesar, 124, 183, 208-212
Chayes, Abram (Abe), 113
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 106, 169
Claiborne, Louis (Lou), 287
Clark, Justice Tom, 123
Clean Air Act, 247
Clifton Terrace, 204
Coalition of Conscience, 104, 194
civil rights, 103
home rule, 103
poverty issues, 103
Cobb, George, 57
Colegrove v. Green, 4
Communism
Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board, 120
exaggerated threat, 81
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infiltration, 77
subversive threat, 80
Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board, 120
Community Relations Service, See Department of Justice, U.S.
Conference on Law and Poverty, 141
constitutional standing, 251
contingent fee cases, 218-219
Coughlin, Father Charles, 44
Cowan, Geoffrey, (Geoff), 210
Cox, Archibald, 22, 23-29, 89, 92, 93, 95, 104, 106, 110-111, 278, 283, 286
Harvard Law School influence, 19
Office of the Solicitor General, 1-12, 109
oral advocate, 4, 27, 87, 107, 116, 118, 277, 287
personality traits, 5
professor of Labor Law at Harvard, 68
Shriver, Sargent, 109, 129
Special Prosecutor, 108
Supreme Court
oral arguments, 12, 107
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 75
Cuban Missile Crisis, 99
Davis, Oscar, 26, 84, 90, 91, 119, 287
Delaney, Paul, 193
Democratic Central Committee, 189, 197
Department of Justice, U. S.
Appellate Section, 22
Civil Rights Division, 22
Community Relations Service, 144, 169
Internal Security Division, 69, 70, 76, 83, 85
Depression, 42, 45
Detroit Free Press, 45
Detroit News, 45
Detroit, Michigan, 31
Briggs Stadium, 55
Dewey, Thomas, 50, 53
District of Columbia
D. C. General Hospital, 211, 213
District of Columbia Development Corporation, 206
Home Rule, 171, 194
preschool special education, 259
Douglas, Justice William, 124, 211, 289
Edelman, Marian Wright, 175
Eisenhower Administration, 3, 76, 92, 91, 93, 293
Elman, Phil, 90-91, 119, 287
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Federal Trade Commission, 222
Elsinore, California, 47
Endangered Species Act, 244
Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA), 231-232
expert witness expenses, 234, 256
False Claims Act, 220
Fauntroy, Walter, 103, 194
Federal Drug Administration (FDA), 213
Federal Housing Act, 139
Federal Water Pollution Act, 231
fee-shifting, 218, 220-221, 224, 230-231
Ferguson, Missouri, 162-163
Ford, Edsel, 34
Ford Foundation, 207-209, 214, 217, 221, 242
Foreign Agents Registration Act, 77
Foreign Service, 254
discrimination against women, 256
Fourteenth Amendment, 283, 299
Frankfurter, Justice Felix, 6, 9, 93, 120, 123, 124, 280
Fresno, California, 49
Freund, Paul, 69
Fried, Dan, 207
Friends of the Earth, 237, 243
Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw, 247-248
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 187
Georgetown Law School, 110, 134
Georgia Unit case, See Baker v. Carr
Gibbons, James (Jim), 138-139, 140, 205
Gibbons, Kathleen, 138
Gillespie, Sally (wife), 72, 290
Goldberg, Justice Arthur, 125
Gormley, Ken, 110
Graham, Katharine, 201
Grape Workers Union, 211, 212
Gray v. Sanders, 1, 10
Great Society, 106
War on Poverty, 131
Greenberg, Hank, 55
Greene, Judge Harold, 256
Griswold, Erwin
Dean of Harvard Law School, 118
Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 34, 50, 55
Snake Woods neighborhood, 37
restrictive covenants, 38
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Guiliani, Rudolph, 152
Hackensack Riverkeeper, 252
Hall, Livingston, 67
Halpern, Charles, 125, 206
Hammer Field, Fresno, California, 49
Handlin, Oscar, 60
Hardin, Jane, 138
Harlan, Justice John Marshall, 18, 19, 123, 280
Harris v. Florida Elections Candidacy Commission, 261
Hart, Henry, 69
Harvard College, 56-60, 63, 84, 272
Ahlstrom. Sydney, 60
application, 57
Beard, Charles, 61
Brinton, Crane, 173
Finley, John, 58
foreign languages, 40
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 187
grades, 59-60
Handlin, Oscar, 60
history major, 60
Huntington, Samuel, 61
Merk, Frederick, 60
Phi Beta Kappa, 61
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr., 60
Schlesinger, Arthur Sr., 60
summa cum laude, 62
thesis, 60-61
Harvard Law School, 4, 6, 7, 19, 24, 68, 69, 75, 115, 126, 144, 208, 265
Chayes, Abram (Abe), 113
Cox, Archibald, 93, 107
experience, 65
Freund, Paul, 69
Griswold, Erwin, 118
Hall, Livingston, 67
Hart, Henry, 69
Harvard Law Review, 66
editor, 67
ideology, 6, 115
Kaplan, Benjamin, 66
Loss, Louis. 69
McCloskey, Robert, 64
Seavey, Warren, 66
Socratic method, 65
Head Start, 131, 132
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Hechinger, John, 172, 193
Helen Hayes Theatre, 232
High Ross Dam, 242
Hoffa, Jimmy, 97, 183
Home Rule Committee, 194
Honeywell case, See Interfaith Community, et al v. Honeywell et al, 237
Honeywell International, Inc., 237, 263
Honors Program (DOJ), 70-76
House Un-American Activities Committee, 83, 119, 120, 122
Housing Development Corporation, 137, 139, 204, 206
Humphrey, Hubert
presidential campaign, 186
Vice President, 168
Huntington, Samuel, 61
IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), 259, 260
Immigration and Naturalization Act, 119, 121
Interfaith Community, et al v. Honeywell, et al, 237
Internal Security Division (DOJ), 69, 70, 76, 83, 85
Jackson, Jessie, 151
Jaffe, Sanford (Sandy), 214
Jerusalem Talmud, 292
Job Corps, 131, 132
Johnson, Lyndon
Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, 144
Majority Leader, 100
President, 21, 91, 100, 101, 105, 131, 142, 165, 179, 191, 193, 295
decision not to run again, 177
Vice President, 100
Viet Nam War, 227
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 47, 48
Kaplan, Benjamin, 66
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 28, 106, 146
Kennedy, Robert, 11-13, 15, 21- 29, 63, 80, 88, 95, 96, 98, 101, 103, 104, 106, 109, 114, 137,
141, 142, 177-179, 190, 202, 215-216, 284
assassination, 105, 187, 188
Attorney General, 1, 8, 11, 21, 100, 103, 177
oral advocate, 12
qualifications, 96, 102
reapportionment, 7
Supreme Court argument, 11, 12
charisma, 142, 182
Chavez, Cesar, 183
funeral, 187
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presidential campaign, 177, 179, 180-184, 186, 188, 189
United States Senator, 179
Indianapolis speech, 184-185
Kennedy, President John, 3, 7, 8, 29, 63, 74, 80, 91, 95-96, 99-106,, 142, 177, 289
administration, 4, 20, 21, 93
assassination, 20, 100, 104-105, 187
Viet Nam, 227
Kessler, Judge Gladys Kessler, 263
King, Martin Luther, 170, 173
assassination, 105, 184-185
March on Washington, 103
Kleppe v. Sierra Club, 247
Laidlaw, 247, 249, 250
significance, 250
Lapham, Tony, 167
Law Offices of Bruce J. Terris, 217
Layton, Police Chief John, 192
legal resources for the poor, 108-110
inadequate resources, 144
Legal Services Corporation, 136
Legal Services Program, 215
Leventhal, Judge Harold, 285
Lewis, Tony, 22, 27, 93
Nieman Fellow, 7
Lodge, Jr., Henry Cabot, 289
United States Senator, 63
Loss, Louis, 69
Lucas v. Colorado, 28
March on Washington, 99, 103
Marshall, Assistant Attorney General, Burke, 22, 24
Supreme Court expert, 25
Marshall, Solicitor General Thurgood, 107
McCarthy, Eugene, 83, 178
weaknesses, 182
McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 296
McCloskey, Robert, 64
McGovern, George, 200
McMillan, John, 193, 195
McNaughton, John, 178
McSorley, Father Richard, 103
Medicaid cases, 263
men’s club, 138
Merk, Frederick, 60
Merrill Palmer Institute, 41
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methadone, 166
Miami Beach, Florida, 47
Monahan, Philip (Phil), 78, 286
Moorman, James (Jim) 210, 221, 228
Moss, Laurence (Larry)
Sierra Club President, 246
Muir, John, 229
Murphy, Jack
Georgetown Law School professor, 134
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 207
Nader, Ralph, 213
National Conference on Law and Poverty, 128
National Council for Senior Citizens, 213
National Crime Commission, 136, 144, 145, 158, 164, 168, 215
citizen advisory groups, 155
community relations, 153
excessive or aggressive police conduct, 156
influence, 160
minority recruiting for police officers, 156
police training, 157
National Development and Reform Commission, 223, 230, 231, 242, 243
National Environmental Policy Act, 224, 247-248
National Resource Defense Council, 243
National Wildlife Federation, 243, 252
NEPA, See National Environmental Policy Act
New Jersey, 252
New York 1964 riots, 172
New York Times, 7, 18, 93, 122, 193, 196, 197
Nixon, Richard, 201
presidential campaign, 187
Vice President, 95, 161, 162
President, 192
Viet Nam War, 228
North Carolina case, See Alliance for Legal Action v. US Army Corps of Engineers
NRDC, See National Development and Reform Commission
O’Brien, Lawrence (Larry), 24, 25
O’Donnell, Kenneth (Kenny), 24, 25
OEO, See Office of Economic Opportunity
Office of Economic Opportunity, 128, 130-133, 136, 144-145, 170
Office of the Solicitor General, 2-5, 8, 14-15, 18, 79, 80, 83-84, 87-91, 94, 95, 108-115, 118,
122, 126, 128, 130-131, 176, 215, 222, 279, 282-283
appointment of Robert Kennedy as Attorney General, 96
briefs, 3, 11, 29, 85, 89, 109-111, 119, 127, 229, 230, 262, 286, 287
Eisenhower administration, 3
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formulation of its position, 114
ideology, 92
inadequate assistance of counsel, 86
temporary job, 2
work flow, 6
On Democracy’s Doorstep, 284
one man, one vote, 1, 13, 21, 27, 254, 282, 284
Palmer v. Shultz, 256
Palmer, Alison, 254, 257, 259, 264
significance, 258
Peace Corps, 132
Pearl Harbor, 45, 50
Pearson, Drew, 177
Pertschuk, Michael (Mike), 213
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 67
Phillips Academy Andover, 58
Phillips, Channing, 189, 194, 204
Phillips, Sally, 73
Pollak, Stephen (Steve), 137, 170
civil rights issues, 94
Deputy General Counsel of the Office of Economic Opportunity, 129
Deputy General Counsel of the Office of Equal Opportunity, 108
emergencies in the South, 94
Kennedy assassination, 20
poverty issues, 131
responsibilities for the District of Columbia, 172
Powell, Justice Lewis, 108, 135, 170
pro bono practice, 222
Project Share, 205
public interest practice, 221. 224, 225
Quesada, Elwood “Pete”, 201
Rankin, J. Lee
background, 85
Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board, 120
Solicitor General, 3-4, 12, 84-85, 91-93
reapportionment, 1-15, 21-23, 28,-30, 88, 92, 97-98, 106-107, 111, 114, 122, 125, 127
reflections on one person, one vote, 298
Reynolds v. Sims, 27-28
Richard Grammar School, 50
Richey, Judge Charles, 285
Rogers, Attorney General William, 92-93
Roosevelt, President Franklin, 45, 50
“Rotten Borough System”, 1
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Royal Oak, Michigan, 44
San Francisco, California, 47
Scalia, Justice Antonin, 249
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr., 60, 61
Schlesinger, Arthur Sr., 60
Schneider v. Rusk, 121
Seavey, Warren, 66
settlement houses, 138
Shirley DuVal (wife), 71
Shriver, Sargent, 24, 109, 128, 129, 132, 135, 136, 215
legal services for the poor, 108
Sierra Club, 207, 230, 243, 249, 253
Muir, John, 229
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, 221, 228
Sierra Club v. Fri, 246-247
Sierra Club v. Morton, 228
sit-in cases, 21, 93, 282
Small Business Administration, 202
Smith, Steven (Steve), 24
Smith Act case, 120
Smith, Gerald L.K.
anti-Semite, 44
Smith, J. Douglas, 284
Smith, Samuel (Sam), 197
Socratic method, 126, 175
Spitzer, Ralph, 118-119, 287
standing, 248
Supreme Court, 228
State Department Grievance Board, 254
state legislature reapportionment question, 22
Stewart, Justice Potter, 280
Supreme Court, U.S. 98, 165, 229, 262
briefs, 90, 110, 127
decisions, 1, 122
sit-ins, 95
Supreme Court History, 29
Takoma, Washington, 47
Tea Party, 200
Terris, 29, 31, 75, 85, 113, 128, 159, 215, 217, 223, 231, 243, 251, 265
Terris, Bruce – personal
birth
Detroit, Michigan, 31
Babylonian Talmud, 292
Brownell Junior High School, 42, 53
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Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 47
children, 72
clerkship applications, 69
Cold War, 52
committed Orthodox Jew, 291
conversion to Catholicism, 71, 290
Depression, 42
DuVal, Shirley (wife), 71
English movies, 60
family life
childhood, 42
discussions, 44
Jewish cultural characteristics, 53
Jewish upbringing, 289
recollections of growing up during World War II, 49
University of Michigan football games, 43
father
Army, 42, 46
medical practice after World War II, 43, 52
practice medicine in Detroit., 32
rupture with father due to conversion, 71
Wayne University., 32
Yiddish spoken during childhood, 31
foreign language difficulties, 40
Gillespie, Sallie (wife), 72
grandfather, 31
Grand Trunk Railroad, 32
scrap business, 32
White Russia (Belarus), 31
Grosse Pointe High School, 53
grades, 54
Hi-Y club with Christian orientation, 38
school newspaper sports editor, 54
Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 34, 50, 55
Snake Woods neighborhood, 37
restrictive covenants, 38
Harvard College, 56-60, 63, 84, 272
Ahlstrom. Sydney, 60
application, 57
Beard, Charles, 61
Brinton, Crane, 173
Finley, John, 58
foreign languages, 40
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 187
grades, 59-60
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Handlin, Oscar, 60
history major, 60
Huntington, Samuel, 61
Merk, Frederick, 60
Phi Beta Kappa, 61
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr., 60
Schlesinger, Arthur Sr., 60
summa cum laude, 62
thesis, 60-61
Harvard Law School, 4, 6, 7, 19, 24, 68, 69, 75, 115, 126, 144, 208, 265
Chayes, Abram (Abe), 113
Cox, Archibald, 93, 107
experience, 65
Freund, Paul, 69
Griswold, Erwin, 118
Hall, Livingston, 67
Hart, Henry, 69
Harvard Law Review, 66
editor, 67
ideology, 6, 115
Kaplan, Benjamin, 66
Loss, Louis. 69
McCloskey, Robert, 64
Socratic method, 65
Seavey, Warren, 66
jailed, 196
Jerusalem Talmud, 292
Korean War, 62
McCarthyism, 62
memory of atomic bombing, 52
Merrill Palmer Institute, 41
Miami Beach, Florida, 47
mother
nurse, 33
Poland, 33
Toronto, 33
tremendous home keeper, 35, 49
newspapers, 44
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 67
PM newspaper, 53
political views as leftist, 53
polynoidal cyst, 62
reapportionment case., 15
reflections
climate change, 297
country’s progress, 293
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state of environmental law, 297
state of public interest law, 298
Reform synagogue, 39
restrictive covenants in Grosse Pointe, 38
Richard Grammar School, 41, 53
sister, 34, 54
Snake Woods, 37
step-daughter Sally Phillips, 73
tennis, 54
University of Michigan application, 56
Terris – Professional
1500 Block Club, 137
Administrative Law Review, 223
advice to young people considering law,, 268
African-American youth programs, 170
Alliance for Legal Action v. US Army Corps of Engineers, 224, 232, 245
Alliance for Public Justice, 214
American Academy of Political Science, 159
American Bar Association, 108, 133, 135
American Canoe Association, 237, 243
American Public Health Association, 213
Anacostia Assistance Corporation, 201-202, 206
Ash Council, 223
Assistant to the Solicitor General, 85, 86
Assistant to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, 170
Baker v. Carr, 1, 3, 4, 7-10, 92, 93
Better Homes organization, 139
biggest challenge for public interest firm, 233
Black Panthers, 259
Bolling v. Sharpe, 95
briefs, 3, 8-9, 11, 13-15, 26, 29, 84, 87, 89, 113, 115, 119, 120, 229-230, 257
Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board, 120
Cox, Archibald, 110-111
Bush v. Gore, 262
Grape Workers Union, 212
learning to write, 78
national environmental organizations, 228-230
Office of the Solicitor General, 109, 286-287
Supreme Court, 90, 110, 127
Brown v. Board of Education, 63, 93, 123, 196, 294, 300
Bush v. Gore, 262
Bustos v. Saxbe, 211
Colegrove v. Green, 4
Carter Administration, 240
Center for Law and Social Policy, 125, 206, 208-215, 217, 221-222
Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, The, 147
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challenges for young lawyers, 269
Chavez, Cesar, 208
Clifton Terrace renovation, 204
Coalition of Conscience, 194
community organizer, 137
Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board, 120
Community Relations Service of the Department of Justice, 169
Conference on Law and Poverty, 141
constitutional standing, 251
contingent fee cases, 218-219
Democratic National Committee, 189
Department of Justice Community Relations Service, 169
District of Columbia Development Corporation, 206
District of Columbia Home Rule Committee, 194
District of Columbia
D.C. General Hospital, 211
preschool special education, 259
Endangered Species Act, 244
evolution of environmental practice, 243
expert expenses, 234
Federal Trade Commission, 213
fee-shifting statutes, 218
Ford Foundation, 217
Friends of the Earth, 237
Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw, 247-248
Gray v. Sanders, 1, 10
great disappointments of legal career, 213
Hackensack Riverkeeper, 252
Harris v. Florida Elections Candidacy Commission, 261
High Ross Dam, 242
hiring and retaining attorneys, 235
Honeywell case, See Interfaith Community, et al v. Honeywell et al
Honeywell International, Inc., 237, 263
House Un-American Activities Committee, 119
Housing Development Corporation, 139
Humphrey, Vice-President Hubert
staff, 174
Immigration and Naturalization Act, 119
Internal Security Division, 70, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 83, 85, 286, 296
Interfaith Community, et al v. Honeywell, et al, 237
jury trials, 275
Kennedy, President John
assassination end of my youth, 104
Kennedy, Robert
presidential campaign, 180, 182
Kleppe v. Sierra Club, 247
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Laidlaw, See Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw, 247-248
Law Offices of Bruce J. Terris, 217
losing cases, 278
Lucas v. Colorado, 28
managing cases, 272
Medicaid cases, 263
men’s club, 138
Nader, Ralph, 213
National Council for Senior Citizens, 213
National Crime Commission, 136
National Environmental Policy Act, 224
North Carolina case, See Alliance for Legal Action v. US Army Corps of Engineers
Office of Economic Opportunity, 144
Office of the Solicitor General
decision to leave, 130
duties and responsibilities of Assistant to the Solicitor General, 86
personal assistant to Solicitor General, J. Lee Rankin, 84
one person, one vote, 254
Palmer v. Shultz, 256
preparation to become a lawyer, 271
preparing for a panel of judges, 276
preparing for trial, 274
preparing to interview witnesses, 273
pride and satisfaction, 30
pro bono practice, 222
practice, 35
proudest accomplishment
reapportionment case, 127
public interest practice, 221, 224-225
biggest challenge for public interest firm, 233
reapportionment, 1-15, 21-23, 28,-30, 88, 92, 97-98, 106-107, 111, 114, 122, 125, 127
reflections, 253, 265
environmental practice, 252
judges, 279, 281
public service career, 126
resignation from Center for Law and Social Policy, 214
Reynolds v. Sims, 27-28
Role of the Police, The, 159
Office of the Solicitor General
day-to-day job, 87
view, as the Tenth Justice, 87
Schneider v. Rusk, 121
Sierra Club, 247
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, 221
Sierra Club v. Fri, 246
Sierra Club v. Morton, 228
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sit-in cases, 86
standing, 228, 248
Supreme Court oral arguments, 116
teaching law at Catholic University., 175
Terris, Pravlik & Millian, 217
Water Act cases, 237
Wesberry v. Sanders, 1, 13, 15-18, 20-21
Supreme Court decision, 18
wife
death due to aneurism, 290
settlement house, 140
women’s club, 138
Terris, Pravlik & Millian, 217, 243
Tompkins, William (Tommy), 79
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 16, 230, 248, 255, 257, 260,
262, 263, 285
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 279
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 118
United States Department of State Foreign Service, 254
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 16, 228-229, 255, 263, 285
Vera Institute, 207
Vietnam War, 105-106, 162, 177-178, 186, 190-191, 227
Vorenberg, James (Jim), 145, 157, 160
Executive Director, OEO, 144
Voting Rights Act, 106, 169
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 106
Wald, Patricia, 206, 255, 256
Judge, 110, 134
National Crime Commission findings, 158
Palmer v. Shultz, 256
Wallace, George, 187
War on Drugs, 167
War on Poverty, 132, 146, 173
Warren Court, 114, 115, 123, 125
Warren, Chief Justice Earl, 123
Washington 1968 riots, 186
Washington, Walter, 191
Washington City Council, 192
Water Act cases, 237
Watts riots 1965, 172
Wesberry v. Sanders, 1, 13, 15-18, 20-21
Supreme Court decision, 18
White, Justice Byron, 124, 211
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Wilkins, Roger, 169
Williams, Edward Bennett, 277-278
women’s club, 138
Wright, Judge Skelly, 69, 285
Yale Law School, 119
ideology, 6, 115
Yalta conference, 50