Lawyers Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee worked together to successfully argue Roe v. Wade, which in 1973 gave women a right to abortion. That right was in effect for 49 years until the Supreme ...

Wade, is of course, Sarah Weddington. At age 26, She argued the case before the Supreme Court and won. Weddington had never tried a lawsuit before. There is another hero, however, Linda Coffee.

“I am very enthusiastic about the possibility of your organization in Austin . . . bringing an action to challenge the Texas Abortion Statute,” wrote Linda Coffee, 26, to Sarah ...

DALLAS — Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who as a 26 ... A couple years after graduating, she and a former classmate, Linda Coffee, brought a class-action lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant ...

Seelye Sarah Weddington, the young Texas lawyer whose ... Ms. Weddington was 26 and had never tried a legal case when she and Linda Coffee, her co-counsel, went before the Supreme Court in 1971.

When Sarah Weddington, who died last week at the age ... Weddington reached out to a classmate from law school, Linda Coffee, who had clerked for a federal judge and was perhaps better equipped ...

Linda Coffee was driving to her office in downtown Dallas when she heard on the radio that she’d just won a U.S. Supreme Court case. Coffee was just 30 years old in January 1973 when seven ...

Coffee was just 30 when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with her argument that the constitutional right to privacy extended to abortion: “I thought, OK, well this is done now.

July 12 (UPI) --Linda Coffee was driving to her office in ... not just the Texas laws that Coffee and her co-counsel, Sarah Weddington, had challenged, but all state laws that banned abortions ...

Coffee was just 30 when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with her argument.