Response to “Leak” from the Dallas Attorney Who Took Roe v. Wade to the Supreme Court
by Paula Bosse
Dallas Morning News headline, May 4, 2022/photo: Tom Fox
by Paula Bosse
Great work by BeLynn Hollers of The Dallas Morning News for getting comments from Linda Coffee — the Dallas attorney who took her case, Roe v. Wade, to the U.S. Supreme Court (along with her co-counsel, Sarah Weddington) — on the leaked Supreme Court draft decision which appears to signal the overturning of her landmark court case. The story, “Roe v. Wade Lawyer Linda Coffee Laments Potential Supreme Court Ruling to Overturn Dallas Case” (Dallas Morning News, May 4, 2022) can be found here (paywall). Below is the video interview with Coffee, posted on YouTube, here.
The previous DMN interview of Linda Coffee by BeLynn Hollers — “Dallas Lawyer Linda Coffee Launched Landmark Roe vs. Wade Abortion Rights Case with a $15 Filing Fee” (Dallas Morning News, Dec. 16, 2021) — can be found here (paywall). The video interview from that article is posted on YouTube here.
And, from 1970, what may be Linda Coffee’s first-ever television interview about the Dallas case (which was just beginning its long trek to the Supreme Court) has recently been found in the WFAA Newsfilm Collection at SMU (G. William Jones Film & Video Collection, Hamon Arts Library, Southern Methodist University). She was, incredibly, only 27 years old. It is posted on YouTube here. (Read the YouTube notes for background info on this interview.)
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I wrote about Linda Coffee’s Dallas days in the Flashback Dallas post “Linda Coffee, The Dallas Attorney Who Took Roe v. Wade to the U.S. Supreme Court.”
And, again, thank you, Linda.
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Flashback : Dallas 
I used to know Linda from the ’70s. I was friends with Ed Polk. When he was the head of the ACLU in Dallas, Ed played a significant role, if not the most prominent position, regarding integration and initial busing in the DISD school district. Man, was he a legend at the time, along with Linda. Many conservatives wanted to kill them. I was a writer for Stoney Burns magazine at the time, Notes from the Underground. A friend of mine whose last name was Pope, was recently in communications with me… she was a “truly” incredible writer for the notes, was recently in tough with me and I think she wrote the definitive writer on this. I’ll try to reach her this weekend and see if she will send me the article that was in the Notes. Mickey
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I’m Mickey Grant, the guy that posted the above statement.
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