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passage 1

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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PrepTest 125 - Section 3 - Passage 1 - Question 5

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