Everyday People Matter
As the seven day mourning period of shiva has ended, I am moving to a remembrance of RBG. Over this thirty day period, I will high-light the case law, in which Ginsburg was an advocate or a jurist, that fundamentally changed the landscape of civil rights and...
Struck vs. Secretary of Defense, 1971: Captain Susan Struck of the United States Air Force brought an action for injunction and declaratory relief to prevent her “unlawful discharge from military service” when she became pregnant. A regulation of the United States...
(Photo by Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEX BRANDON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Yesterday there was a photo of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s casket outside the United States Supreme Court while a hundred of her law clerks, dressed all in black, stood at attention on...
As I endeavor to post daily on some of the important case law which RBG (either as a jurist or an advocate) fashioned, I appreciate both the body of law that developed because of her and I mourn the passage of that era. While I cannot predict what will happen in the...
The Jewish mourning period is one month for family other than parents (which is a year). Part of mourning is connection with others who come to you and share your grief and sit with you in your sorrow. I wanted to share some of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s opinions from...
Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (known affectionately of late as “RBG”), died in the evening on the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. In the Jewish tradition, family members “sit shiva” for seven days and seven nights by sitting on low...