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Gregory Coleman killed

Gregory S. Coleman, one of Texas’s leading appellate lawyers and a former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, has been killed in a plane crash in Florida, according to various news accounts.  Coleman argued in the Court on Oct. 13, in Skinner v. Switzer, on access to DNA evidence — a case not yet decided.  In 2009, he argued one of the Court’s most important civil rights cases in years — Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District v. Holder, on county governments’ right to bail out of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  The accident that took his life is reported in this news story.

(Thanks to several readers for informing the blog of this tragic event.)

Recommended Citation: Lyle Denniston, Gregory Coleman killed, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 24, 2010, 4:54 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2010/11/gregory-coleman-killed/