The passage of a giant of the bar and the bench
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on Jul 12, 2011 at 9:40 am
SCOTUSblog notes with sadness the death last week of Daniel Friedman at the age of ninety-five. Â Judge Friedman is best known for his twenty-nine-year tenure on the Federal Circuit, the last of its original members. Â But even before he was on that court, he gained renown as one of the great Supreme Court advocates of the twentieth century. Â During his lengthy tenure in the Justice Department, much of it as the principal deputy to the Solicitor General, he argued eighty cases in the Supreme Court. Â