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Sunday, February 29, 2004
Law - Justice Blackmun's papers available this week
From the LA Times, this story:
The ghost of Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun will be back in the news this week, five years after his death and more than 30 years after he wrote the momentous and still-disputed Roe vs. Wade opinion that legalized abortion. * * * On Thursday, the anniversary of his death, the Library of Congress will open Blackmun's papers to the public — all 1,576 boxes full.And this interesting note:
Some historians said they were troubled that Blackmun's law clerks gave advance access to the documents to Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times and Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio. They were given two months of advance access to the files, and their reports will begin Thursday.Harold Koh, a Yale law professor and a former Blackmun clerk, arranged the deal with the two reporters with the permission of Sally Blackmun, the justice's daughter. Koh also gave the "News Hour with Jim Lehrer" advance right to broadcast oral-history interviews with Blackmun conducted by Koh.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 29, 2004 07:09 PM
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