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Percy L. Julian, Jr., Esq.

By C.S. Wiggins

"The legal community ? particularly the First Amendment field ? lost a giant recently in Wisconsin-based civil rights attorney Percy L. Julian Jr., who died Feb. 24 in Madison at age 67," laments David L. Hudson, Jr. of the First Amendment Center here. I considered Percy a friend, and the comments offered by Jeff Scott Olson and H. Louis Sirkin in the article are spot on: Percy was a talented lawyer, and an extraordinary gentlemen. In a sad coincidence, I e-mailed Percy last week, picking his brain about recovering attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1988. (Percy has always taken time to educate -- and console -- me.)

Now I know why my friend did not respond.

Full post as published by Meeting the Sin Laws on March 02, 2008 (boomark / email).