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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

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

Explain Marshall's approach · Use of sociological and pyschological statistical evidence

Showed that racial segregation caused harm which violated the Constitution

Critics' perspective · on Marshall's use of statistical evidence

Took cases outside the realm of purely legal discourse

Implications of Marshall's approach · Public interest firms still use his methods

Examples · of campaigns using Marshall's methods

Consumer advocacy, lawmaking though litigation

Revisit main point · Marshall's public interest approach has been widely adopted

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Start by understanding Marshall’s strategies as described by the passage. First, Marshall used “test cases,” which involved choosing the right plaintiff. In addition, Marshall used statistics to help convince judges about the harm from discrimination. Let’s look for an answer that involves being selective about cases and using statistics.

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This is most analogous, because it involves being selective about which case to pursue (the pollution case pursued is selected based on its implications for other related cases), and the use of statistics (data from a medical authority).

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This doesn’t involve the use of statistics. So, even if you think (B) involves something similar to the test case strategy, it’s not the most analogous compared to (A).

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This doesn’t involve the use of statistics. So, even if you think (C) involves something similar to the test case strategy, it’s not the most analogous compared to (A).

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This doesn’t involve the use of statistics. So, even if you think (D) involves something similar to the test case strategy, it’s not the most analogous compared to (A).

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This doesn’t involve the use of statistics. So, even if you think (E) involves something similar to the test case strategy, it’s not the most analogous compared to (A).

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