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For which civil rights case did Ruth Bader Ginsburg name Pauli Murray as a coauthor of the ACLU brief?

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • Roe v. Wade

  • Reed v. Reed

Answer

Reed v. Reed was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court ruled that an Idaho statute giving preference to men over women in the appointment of administrators of estates violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of the attorneys who argued the case before the Supreme Court, and she named Pauli Murray as a coauthor of the ACLU brief.
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