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Original offprint of the "proceedings held on the occasion of the induction of Honorable Robert A. Katzmann as United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit." Octavo, original wrappers, dated October 25, 1999. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper, "ForÂRuth & Marty, with continuing appreciation and affection, Bob 12/99." The recipient, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White, Ginsburg became the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day Oâ Connor. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and womenâ s rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court, Ginsburg received attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed â the Notorious R.B.G.â , a moniker she later embraced. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination, voting rights, and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia (1996) which struck down the Virginia Military Instituteâ s male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Olmstead v. L.C. (1999) in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000) in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Robert A. Katzmann was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1999 until his death and as the courtâ s Chief Judge from 2013 to 2020. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, Katzmann was widely respected for his scholarship in administrative law, statutory interpretation, and the relationship between courts and Congress. Before joining the federal bench, he was a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University and authored several influential works examining how legislation is created and interpreted within the American legal system.
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