PT125.S3.P1.Q6

PrepTest 125 - Section 3 - Passage 1 - Question 6

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P1

Most of what has been written about Thurgood Marshall, a former United States Supreme Court justice who served from 1967 to 1991, has just focused on his judicial record and on the ideological content of his earlier achievements as a lawyer pursuing civil rights issues in the courts. ███

Intro topic · Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and Supreme Court judge
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Main point · Marshall's work with the NAACP had significant impact on public interest law
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Elaborate on main point · Marshall's campaign-style approach was an important shift for public interest law
Represented a shift away from case-by-case litigation
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Explain Marshall's approach · The "test case" strategy
Chose cases that allowed him to test different litigation approaches and involved sympathetic plaintiffs
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Explain Marshall's approach · Use of sociological and pyschological statistical evidence
Showed that racial segregation caused harm which violated the Constitution
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Critics' perspective · on Marshall's use of statistical evidence
Took cases outside the realm of purely legal discourse
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Implications of Marshall's approach · Public interest firms still use his methods
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Examples · of campaigns using Marshall's methods
Consumer advocacy, lawmaking though litigation
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Revisit main point · Marshall's public interest approach has been widely adopted
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The author never suggests Marshall’s Supreme Court accomplishments have been undervalued. This is what most writing about Marshall focuses on.

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The author never identifies the “most” controversial or “most” successful aspects of Marshall’s litigation strategies.

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The author never indicates that sociological data had been used in private cases before Marshall used it in public interest cases.

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The author never indicates that the first public interest law firms were established in response to Marshall’s successes. We don’t know when the first law firms were established or whether some of them might have existed while Marshall was still developing his strategies with the NAACP.

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Supported. We know politically conservative public interest lawyers have used Marshall’s techniques. The author tells us this might seem surprising, given Marshall’s different political objectives from those of conservative lawyers. This is evidence that Marshall “might not have intended” his techniques to be used for conservative causes.

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