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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Dorothy Toth Beasley

Beasley was 0-3 in her early 1970s Supreme Court orals, her first against another woman advocate with a softer voice.  She lost in Furman v. Georgia (death penalty) and Doe v. Bolton (abortion).  She later became a state judge and continued to be honored for decades.