Pioneering attorney Catherine Roraback, 87
Posted: Friday, October 19th, 2007 5:17 pmSALISBURY, Conn. (AP) — Catherine Roraback, a pioneering attorney who was among the founders of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, died this week at a local retirement home, according to family members.
She was 87. …
Some of the cases that Roraback litigated led to landmark rulings establishing privacy rights and the right of access to contraception.
Roraback, who described her work as protecting the rights of “dissenters and the dispossessed,” also defended the Black Panthers in New Haven and civil rights workers in Mississippi. … Read full obituary
