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Barring women from practicing law was prohibited in the U.S. in 1971. [9] In 1975, Julia Cooper Mack was appointed to the D.C. Court of Appeals, making her the first woman of color, and only the eighth woman total, to be appointed to a court of last resort. By 1993, 60 women had served on the highest court in forty states, the District, and the ...
Idaho Code specified that "males must be preferred to females" in appointing administrators of estates and the court appointed Cecil as administrator of the estate, valued at less than $1,000. Sally Reed was represented at the Supreme Court by Idaho lawyer Allen Derr, who argued that the Fourteenth Amendment forbids discrimination based on sex. [2]
Missouri is a Supreme Court case in which it ruled that the exemption on request of women from jury service under Missouri law, resulting in an average of less than 15% women on jury venires in the forum county, violated the "fair-cross-section" requirement of the Sixth Amendment as made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Iowa Supreme Court is being asked to consider, again, if state courts can bill poor defendants for their court-appointed lawyers, even when they're acquitted or the charges against them are ...
When attorney Elizabeth Sweet walked out of Bremerton Municipal Court on May 23, she left the city without a safety net to accommodate the need for public defenders, a national issue that has ...
In 2000, J. Clay Smith Jr., Dean of the Howard University School of Law, published Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers with the University of Michigan Press. [18] In 2019, Tsedale M. Melaku's book, You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism was published by Rowman & Littlefield. [19]
Amy Pletscher, an attorney for the state, said the lawsuit was brought by women and doctors who "simply do not like Texas’ restrictions on abortion.“ “The purpose of this court is not to ...
This 18-month-long, 300-page, comprehensive study looks at the legal problems low and moderate-income residents face in the state’s civil court system.