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...although the period was a major turning point in the pursuit of racial equality, gender issues did not enter the limelight until later, said Lichtman...
...panelists were W.E.B. Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who is chair of the Afro-American Studies Department; Women's Legal Defense Fund President Judith Lichtman; Deval Patrick, assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights; and John Seigenthaler, chair of The Freedom Forum...
...ruling delighted pro-choicers, some perhaps inordinately. Judith Lichtman, president of the Women's Legal Defense Fund, said, "It's a victory for women" -- though the applicability of that statement may depend on whether a woman is for or against abortion rights. She continued, "By this decision, the court rightly recognized the danger that this national conspiracy of harassment, stalkings, bombings, shootings and chemical attacks poses to women and health care providers." But that may be an overstatement of a far narrower opinion...
...delighted that President Bush's first appointee voted with the majority," said Douglas Johnson, of the National Right to Life Committee. Pro-choice advocates regard last week's holding in Rust as an ominous harbinger of decisions to come. "Justice Souter showed his true colors today," said Judith Lichtman, president of the Women's Legal Defense Fund, adding that the Roe ruling was in "immediate peril...
...Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc., which overturned an appellate court decision, was immediately hailed as a major victory by women's rights activists, labor unions and civil liberties groups. "The court made it clear today that sex discrimination is not a legal solution to workplace hazards," said Judith Lichtman, president of the Women's Legal Defense Fund. "The Justices struck down a sex-based policy that threatened to deny 15 million to 20 million industrial jobs to women...