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Oral History of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Index
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 51
Abella, Rosie, 325
abortion, 72, 82, 113, 115-17, 172, 285
Abourezk v. Reagan (case), 270-71, 283
Abscam, 262-64
ACLU See American Civil Liberties Union
ALI (American Law Institute), 92-93
Alito, Samuel, 316
Allen v. Wright(case), 230, 232
Allen, Florence, 131
American Bar Association (ABA), 88-89, 92, 137, 302
highest rating for RBG Curt of Appeals nomination, 136
American Civil Liberties Union, 82-85, 97-101, 106-07, 119, 124, 134, 219, 299, 301, 311
Amster, Celia (mother), 4
Anti-Apartheid Act, 282
anti-Semitism, 5
asbestosis, 257-59
Association of American Law Schools (AALS), 77
Atari Games (cases), 286
arrogance of officialdom, 286-87
Bader, Nathan (father), 4-5, 7-8, 15
smoking, 37
Bader, Richard Eugene (cousin), 7
Baker v. Commissioner (case), 271-72
example of bureaucratic arrogance, 272
Bazelon, David, 128, 134, 145-46, 152, 161, 231, 234
Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, Robert Novak (case), 159, 187
Blackmun, Harry, 110, 112, 120-21
Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 29-30
Bob Jones (case), 216, 221, 224-27
Bork, Robert (Bob), 156-57, 159-60, 209-10, 230, 232, 259, 266-67, 271
Bork, Ellen, 156
Born, Brooksley, 136-37
Boxley, Nancy, 33, 47
Brandeis, Louis, 105, 199, 206
Brennan, William, 107, 125, 146
Breyer, Stephen, 153, 193, 220, 293, 298, 311
Brooklyn Eagle (newspaper), 14
Brown v. Board of Education (case), 40, 268A-2
Bruzelius, Anders, 69, 73-74
Bryant, William (Bill), 263
Burger, Warren, 110, 138, 174, 208, 213, 229, 247-48
borrower-lender rule, 208
intercircuit conflict resolver, 213
intercircuit panel, 174-75
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (case), 316
Bush v. Gore (case), 318
Bush, George H. W., 298
Califano v. Goldfarb (case), 118
Canal Zone See Stevenson v. Castles
Carter, Jimmy, 73, 126, 128-31. 306, 324
Castleton Festival, 316-17
CCNV v. Reid, the Community for Creative Nonviolence (case), 279
Chambers, David, 44
Chambers v. Morris (case), 252
Chayes, Toni, 62
Clement, Paul, 324
Clinton, William (Bill), 37, 73-74, 136, 138, 206, 292, 295, 311
Coffin, Frank, 175
collegiality, 132-33. 144. 153-54. 181
Cooper v. Aaron (case), 268-69
Cooper, George, 79
Copyright Act, 279-280, 287
Craig v. Boren (case), 92, 125
Crozier, Blanche, 85
Cuomo, Andrew, 293
Cushman, Robert, 20-21, 26, 29-31
Dalton School, 63
Davidson, Kenneth, 88
Davidson, Mike, 238, 243, 252
de Beauvoir, Simone, 82, 84
De Lutio, Marilyn (Justice Ginsburg childhood friend), 9
Dellums v. NRC (case), 271, 281, 283
standing, 282
Department of Health and Human Services et al. v. Florida et al (case), 318
Detroit Free Press (newspaper), 283
Detroit News (newspaper), 283
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House, 29-30
discrimination
Jewish, 10
positive, 306
racial, 40, 120, 223-24A-3
sexual, 57, 84, 93, 99, 113, 117, 120
District of Columbia Circuit Conference, 90, 297
District of Columbia Circuit Historical Society
founding, 3, 307
Doe v. Bolton (case), 115
Doe v. Dominion Bank of Washington (case), 290
Dole, Robert (Bob), 140
Dorsen, Norman, 98
Douglas, William, 120
Dreeben, Michael, 324
Duren v. Missouri (case), 108, 114-15, 118, 122, 149
Dying Newspapers Act (Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970), 283
Dyk, Tim, 215
Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization (case), 228-29
Edgar, Hal, 107
Edwards v. Healy (case), 103, 118, 122
Edwards, Harry, 128, 145-46, 150, 152, 161, 183, 198, 213, 231
EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), 303
Einaudi, Mario, 26
Equal Pay Act, 79, 113, 266
Establishment Clause, 234-35, 248, 253
Evans and Novak (case), 159, 187
Family and Medical Leave Act, 319
Federal Judicial Center, 149-50, 203
Federal Reporter (case law reporter), 175-76, 233
Federal Second, 193, 195
Federal Supplement, 193, 195
Federal Tort Claims Act, 260-61
Federalist Society, 206
Feldman, Jim, 324
Feres Doctrine, 260-61
Ferguson, Clyde, 73, 78, 80
Ferguson, M. Carr, 143
Finkbine, Sherry, 72, 82
First Amendment, 159-60, 270-71
Fisher, Jeff, 324
Flast v. Cohen (case), 234-35, 239, 244-45, 253
Florida ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 119
Florida Supreme Court, 119
Foster, Vince, 295
Frankel, Osmond, 98
Frankfurter, Felix, 52
Fried Frank (law firm) (formerly Strasser Spiegelberg, 66
Friedan, Betty, 84A-4
Friendly, Henry, 64
Frontiero v. Richardson (case), 83, 106-09, 111, 115, 118, 120, 122, 125, 149
Frontiero, Sharron, 106
Fundamentalism, 236
Gardner, Dick, 76
Garland, Merrick, 323
Garre, Greg, 324
Garrison, Lloyd, 56
Gasch, Oliver, 104, 277
Gellhorn, Walter, 72, 77
Gesell, Gary, 308
Ginsburg, Douglas, 210
Ginsburg, James (son), 60, 63, 325-26
University of Chicago, 94
Ginsburg, Jane (daughter), 39, 42, 47, 49-50, 60, 66, 68-69, 325
Brearley School, 62-63
John Gibbons, 94
Library of Congress advisory committee,
University of Chicago, 94
writings, 94
Ginsburg, Marty (husband)
campaign manager, 311
cancer, 47, 49
Cornell, 23
father, 42, 43
General Motors, 312
mother, 49, 95, 108
ROTC and artillery school, 22
smoking, 38
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader – Personal
admired Amelia Earhart, 14
admired Eleanor Roosevelt, 14
Boston University Law Review, 83
cello, 17
chemotherapy, 255
Columbia Law School, 25, 33
Columbia Law Review, 45-47, 49, 53, 97
lack of women on faculty, 56
Cooperstown summer opera, 314
Cornell University, 12-13, 15, 22, 24, 26
Arts College, 29
class marshal, 35
extracurricular activity, 31
“good place to find a man”, 28
husband (Marty), 25A-5
scholarships, 20
sororities, 27
working, 12
Cornell Law School, 34
Cornell Law Review, 96
double register, 34
Depression, 7, 8, 20
discrimination against Native Americans, 40-41
exercise, 254-55
favorite authors and composers, 254
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 11, 18, 22-23, 30, 41-42, 54
inventory clerk, 39
gender discrimination, 81, 83
Gorn, Isidore, 17
Grimke sisters, 85
Harvard Law School, 33-34, 43-44, 48
Harvard Law Review, 46-47, 54
lack of dormitory space for women, 54
refused entrance to the old periodical room at Lamont Library
status of women, 29
high school
James Madison High School, 15
high school extracurricular activities
Go-Getters, twirling, 19
orchestra, 17
piano lessons, 15
honeymoon in Europe, 35
honorary degree from the University of Lund, 75
how to deal with being in the public eye constantly, 123
importance of marriage in life, 33
Jewish summer camp, 10, 12, 17, 27
Joan Ruth Bader (birth certificate), 7
Kiki (nickname), 6-7
learning Swedish, 66-68
love of opera, 18
mother’s death, 8
Nabokov, Vladamir
Lolita, 29
Nancy Drew, 14
Nazis, 10
newspapers
the Times and the Post, 325
Oklahoma, 11
See also Fort Sill
Oklahoma Bar Association, 92
Social Security office work, 30-31A-6
stark symbol of racial segregation, 40
religiously observant household as a child, 11
research assistant for Professor Robert Cushman, 20
Rutgers and Columbia Law School atmosphere welcoming women, 79
Salzburg, Austria, 38
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 314
Shakespeare Theater, 144
smoking cigarettes, 37-38
sororities
Cornell, 26
rigidly segregated by religion, 27
thoughts on being a militant feminist, 84
thoughts on university spirit Harvard and Columbia, 55
Washington Opera, 154
World War II, 10, 23-24
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader – Professional
ABA, 88
ABA Journal Board, 89
rating for judicial nomination, 136
ACLU, 119, 124, 134, 219, 299, 301, 311
ACLU Women’s Rights Project, 97, 100-01, 106
complaints about sex discrimination, 82
Frontiero v. Richardson, 106-07
general counsel, 98-99
Reed v. Reed, 83
American Bar Foundation, 89
American Law Institute (ALI), 92-93
advisor ALI Complex Litigation Project, 93
Bar associations
City Bar (Association of the Bar of the City of New York), 88-89, 91
D.C. Bar, 89, 91
collegiality, 132-33, 144, 153-54, 181
confirmation hearings, 124, 134
American Bar Association. 301
FBI, 301
Court of Appeals confirmation process, 134, 137, 140, 210, 296
Duren v. Missouri (case), 108, 114-15, 118, 122, 149
equal rights
litigation, 259
Equal Rights Amendment talks, 302
Federal Bar Council, 90
freedom of religion, 278
Goldfarb (case), 100, 112, 118, 121
International Journal of Comparative Law, 96
Kahn v. Shevin (case), 112, 118-122
law review articles’ influence on judges, 197-98A-7
Madison Lecture at NYU Law School, 291
nomination process, 135, 311
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, 56
per curiam, 171, 245-47, 266-67, 269
no single meaning, 268
precedents, 144, 176, 198, 224, 231, 234, 243-45, 279
protracted cases, 276
Restatement of Judgments advisor, 92
Rutgers Law School, 73, 77, 79-83, 86-87, 94-95, 148
selection of law clerks, 58, 205, 323
Strasser Spiegelberg (now Fried Frank), 66, 72
Swedish judicial system, 66
Social Security cases, 99
sources for opinions, 196-97
Speaking in a Judicial Voice, 67 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 1185 (1992), 115-16
standing, 151, 180, 185, 221, 223-24, 228-36, 238-39, 243-47, 251-53, 271, 281-83, 285
Supreme Court
amicus briefs, 322
brief candor and brevity, 324
cert process, 312-13
cert petitions, 101, 315-16
cert pool, 163, 315-16
criteria for selecting law clerks, 205
death penalty cases, 144, 313
dissents, 220, 267, 316, 318-19, 321
draft opinion circulation, 318, 322
footnotes, 195-96
invitations, 92, 314
jurisdiction is discretionary, 173, 312-13
rule of lenity, 220
seniority, 313
set routines, 204
Taylor (case), 115
United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
bill to create an intercircuit panel, 173-75
Circuit Judicial Council, 154
circuit splits in opinions, 199
difference between government briefs and private attorneys’ briefs, 179
dissents, 184, 195-96, 225, 228, 245-46, 260-61, 270-71, 273, 286
friendships did not divide on party lines, 145, 158
important task of an appellate judge, 166
heavy administrative law cases, 177
opinion circulation, 160, 184, 199-201, 230
opinion publication, 175, 234
opinion-writing, 163, 171, 186, 190
party presentation, 238A-8
political factions, 158
political/non-political questions, 153, 174
quality of agency lawyers as opposed to Department of Justice lawyers, 212
race/gender bias study, 303-05, 309
reversals, 243
role of senior judges, 209
September Rule, 162
three-cornered agency suits, 217, 185
Women’s Bar Association, 153
Goesaert v. Cleary (case), 51-52
Goldfarb See Califano v. Goldfarb
Gorman, Bob, 299
Graham, Kay, 188
Green, Joyce, 154-55, 304
Green, June, 146
Gribbon, Dan, 307
Griswold, Erwin, 54, 99
Gunther, Gerry, 57, 59, 143, 182, 197
Hames, Margie, 115
Hand, Learned, 58, 61, 182, 291
Hanks, Eva (Eva Moreale), 78
Hazard, Geoffrey, 93
Helms, Jesse, 296
Henkin, Lou, 240-41
Hobby Lobby See Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Hope, Judy, 317
Hufstedler, Shirley, 92-93, 131
IRS, 222, 225-26, 233, 272
Jay, John, 248
Johnson, Lyndon B., 131
Jones, Keith, 121
justiciability issues, 249, 251-52
Kagan, Elena, 320, 323
Kahn v. Shevin (case), 112, 118-122
Kaplan, Benjamin, 43, 87, 93
Karpatkin, Marvin, 83, 98
Katyal, Neil, 324
Katzen, Sally, 215
Katzmann, Bob, 175, 213, 323
Kaufman, Irving, 64
Kay, Herma Hill, 87-88
Kellogg Huber, 324A-9
Kelly, Richard, 262-65
Kennedy, Anthony, 319
Kennedy, Edward (Teddy), 136
Kenyon, Dorothy, 85, 114
Kessler, Gladys, 255
King, Patricia, 127
Klain, Ron, 299, 311
Klein, Joel, 297, 299, 311
Kneedler, Edwin, 324
Konvitz, Milton, 26, 31
Korean War, 21-23
Kozinski, Alex, 206
labels, 217, 219-21, 226, 241, 249, 266, 268, 274
Lacovara, Phil, 266
Laffey v. Northwest Airlines (case), 265, 267, 269
Law Week (periodical), 83, 119
Leahy v. District of Columbia (case), 277-78
Leff, Arthur, 64
Leventhal, Harold, 127-28, 133-34
Levin, Joe, 106-07
Lewis, Anthony, 45
Lexis, 175, 233
Lichtman, Judy, 135-36
Women’s Legal Defense Fund, 135
Lombard (case), 260, 262
Lombard, Theodore, 260-61
Lumbard, Joseph, 208
Luttig, Michael, 299
Lynch, Jerry, 288-89
Maazel, Lorin, 316-17
MacKinnon, George, 104-05, 145-47, 198, 239, 241, 245, 249, 265
MacKinnon, Kitty, 105
Marsh v. Chambers (case), 235, 239, 245-46, 249
Marshall, John, 112, 193-94, 198
Marshall, Thurgood, 146
Matthews, Burnita Shelton, 146
McCarthy, Joseph, 21-22
McGowan, Carl, 85, 132-33, 144, 155, 158, 160, 165, 183, 198, 236-37
McKelvey v. Turnage (case), 273-74
willful misconduct or disability, 274
Mecham, Ralph, 297
Meese, Edwin, 283-84
Michigan Citizens for an Independent Press v. Thornburgh (case), 283-84
Mikva, Abner, 86, 124, 128, 150, 152, 161, 219, 231A-10
Miller, Arthur, 93
Minow, Martha, 59
Moberg, Eva, 71, 81
Moore, Leonard, 58
Moreale, Eva See Eva Hanks
Morgan, Chuck, 107
Moritz (case), 105
Moritz, Charles E., 99, 105
Morris v. Chambers (case), 252
Morris, Jeffrey, 307-09
Moynihan, Patrick (Pat), 130, 293-94
Murray v. Buchanan (case), 221, 233-35, 237, 239, 241, 243, 251
Murray, Pauli, 57
Muscarella (case), 220
Nabokov, Vladamir, 25, 29-30
Nation, Lee, 108
Ness, Susan, 136
Political Caucus, 134-35
New York Times (newspaper), 124, 149, 325
Nilsson, Wiwen, 74
Nixon, Richard
affirmative action program, 80
Norris, Judy, 147
Northwest Airlines See Laffey v. Northwest Airlines
Norwood (case), 229
Nussbaum, Bernard (Bernie), 293, 298, 311
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 78, 148, 153-54, 230, 319-20, 322
Ollman, Berttell See Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, Robert Novak
Palmieri, Edmund L., 57, 59-60, 63-66, 208, 259-60
paper bag case, 188-89, 216, 219
See also United States of America, v. Albert Ross, Jr.
Peratis, Kathleen, 100
Perot, Ross, 312
Petersen, Kenneth, 68
Phillips, Carter, 324
Phillips, Dick, 130, 324
Pollack, Milton, 208, 283
Pottinger, Stan, 70
Powell v. McCormick (case), 343
Powell, Adam Clayton, 64
Prettyman, Barrett, 307
Property Clause of the Constitution, 244
Rabb, HarrietA-11
Employment Discrimination Project, 79
race discrimination, 151, 223
distinguished from sex discrimination, 111, 120
in education, 223
Raven v. Panama Canal Company (case), 103
Reagan, Ronald, 129-30
Robert Bork, 156
Reed v. Reed (case), 83, 97-99, 105-06, 112, 115
Reed, Cecil, 112
Reed, Sally, 83
Reese, Willis, 87
Registrar of Copyrights, 287
regulation of surface mining, 185, 217
Rehnquist, William, 110, 149, 319
Reid, James, 279-80
Robb, Roger, 145, 151, 183, 198
Robinson, Aubrey, 194-95, 266
Robinson, Spottswood, 162, 165
Roe v. Wade (case), 115-16, 292
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 14
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 4, 23, 131
Ross, Susan, 100
Rossiter, Clinton, 26
Rubin, Alvin, 103-04, 133
Ruff, Chuck, 179
Scalia, Antonin (Nino), 153-54, 156, 159, 207, 209-10, 220, 232, 273, 320-01, 325
Scalia/Ginsburg opera, 326
Scalia, Maureen, 326
Schizer, David, 323
Schmidt, Benno, 107
Schwartz, Herman, 134
screening judge, 169-70
Sentelle, David, 296
sex discrimination, 57, 82, 84, 93, 99, 111-12, 117, 120
Seymour, Mike, 308
SG (Solicitor General), 121, 315, 323
Shapiro, David, 93
Sharon (case), 276
Shattuck, John, 134
Shelby County v. Holder (case), 318
Silberman, Laurence, 110, 232, 283, 288-89
Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Org. (case), 228-29
Smit, Hans, 66
Smith, John Lewis, 104
Snyder, Mitch, 279-80A-12
Sofaer, Abraham, 276
Sotomayor, Sonia, 320
Souter, David, 220, 300
staff counsel, 147, 164-65, 168, 170, 176
Starr, Kenneth (Ken), 92, 256, 267, 273
steel seizure case, 21, 250
Steinem, Gloria, 123
Stevens, John Paul, 92, 112, 207, 237, 319
Stevenson v. Castles (case), 102-03
Stewart, John Paul, 112, 151, 187, 219, 325
Struck v. Secretary of Defense (case), 106
Struck, Susan, 106
Stubblefield, Edna, 115
Suffolk Law Review, 193
Sullivan, Kathleen, 299
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 167
Supreme Court
Allen v. Wright (case), 230, 232
Blue Book, 46
control of cases, 172
precedents, 115, 144, 176, 198-99, 224, 231, 234, 243-45, 247, 253, 279, 321, 324
Supreme Court Historical Society, 203
Supreme Court of Israel, 231
Tamm, Edward (Ed), 145, 158, 160, 183, 198, 225-26, 228
Taranto, Richard, 230
Tatel, David, 323
Taub, Nadine, 104
Tavoulareas (case), 188, 275
Taylor (case), 114-15
Taylor, Billy Joe, 114-15
The Legal Process by Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, 228
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 82
Thomas, Clarence, 210, 303
Thurmond, Strom, 135-36
Tidewater Inn, 297
Tydings, Joe, 126-27
Totenberg, Nina, 325
Truman, Harry S., 23, 146
Tucker, Marna, 127
United Families of America, 135
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
agency cases, 178, 185, 216, 269
character of cases, 211
chief staff counsel, 147, 164-66A-13
distinct caseload, 211-12
enormous range of cases, 256
how the court as an institution treated women appointees, 146
no-citation rule, 175-76
opinion-writing styles were quite varied, 163
role of chief judge, 165
role of screening judge, 169-70
staff counsel, 168, 170, 176
unpublished opinions, 192
writing assignments, 166, 177, 183, 190
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 185, 212
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 147, 174-75, 193
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 103, 133
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 92, 201, 211-12, 307
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 58, 64, 89-90, 126, 162, 169, 182,
193, 209, 304, 307-09
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 92, 99, 174
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 94
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 167-68, 185, 205, 212, 226, 235, 238,
243, 251-52, 266, 309
Matthews, Burnita Shelton, 146
three-judge district court, 102, 124
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 104
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 57, 208, 289
United States Judicial Conference, 174
United States v. Albert Ross, Jr. (case), 216, 219
United States v. Ballin (case), 244
United States v. Iennaco (case), 264, 288
United States. v. Kelly, 262
United States v. North (case), 288
alleged concession made at the oral argument, 288
Valley Forge v. Americans for Separation of Church and State (case), 248
Wald, Patricia (Pat), 93, 128, 146-47, 150-51, 161, 165, 213, 219, 231, 307-08
first woman on the D.C. Circuit Court, 78
Walker v. Jones (case), 242, 265
Speech and Debate Clause, 265
Walker, John, 304
Wallace, Henry, 24
Wallace, Larry, 53
Walsh, Ed, 126
Washington Post (newspaper), 188, 212, 325
Waxman, Seth, 324
Weinburger v. Wiesenfeld (case), 100, 118, 121
Weinstein, Jack, 104A-14
West/Westlaw, 233-34
White, Byron, 292
Wiesenfeld, Jason, 124-25
Wiesenfeld, Stephen, 123
Wilkey, Malcolm, 145, 152, 158
Williams, Edward Bennett, 64, 188
Wilson v. Johns-Manville (case), 256-57
Winter, Ralph, 209
Wisdom, John, 103-04
Wright v. Regan (case), 151, 216, 221, 225-27, 230, 233
Wright, Skelly, 142-43, 145, 147, 151-52, 158-59, 216, 225-27, 256
Wulf, Mel, 83
Yale Law Journal, 240