Memo from Lani Guinier to Jack Greenberg (Attachment: draft letter from Greenberg to Robert Wise)

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November 16, 1982

Memo from Lani Guinier to Jack Greenberg (Attachment: draft letter from Greenberg to Robert Wise) preview

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  • Legal Department General, Lani Guinier Correspondence. Memo from Lani Guinier to Jack Greenberg (Attachment: draft letter from Greenberg to Robert Wise), 1982. 52888faf-e392-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/280f7685-b002-4d8e-8801-9a7e9e96e4e2/memo-from-lani-guinier-to-jack-greenberg-attachment-draft-letter-from-greenberg-to-robert-wise. Accessed June 01, 2025.

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    November 16, 1982

RoberE W1ee, Eeq.
Davls, Polk & Wardwell
Oae Chaee Manhatten Plaza
New York, N. Y. 10005

Dear Mr. I{ige:

r wrlte to thank you for the aeatetaoce that your flru haeglvcn ua 1n preparlng a leglalatlve hlatory of Ehe Lggz
ameudmeot to Sectlou 2 of th€ VotLug Rlghte Act of 1965.
Roy A. McKeuzle dld a very helpful Job of analyzlng the
cougreealonal Record and other prloary oource aaterlal to pre-
pare a well wrltten meuorandum for practlclng laryera. Ronald
Krausa carefully analyzed tbe leglelatlve hlBtory aod governlng
caae Iaw to wrlte a conpreheaslve neuoraudun on the couat,ltu-
tlonallty of the L982 ameudueut. t{e dlstrlbuted tbeee meuoranda
to approrlnately one huadred lawyera at ao LDF 1awyers traialug
coaference on votlng rlghte laet week. The work of Mr. McKeuzle
aad Mr. Krauea waa an lovaluable addltlon to the coufereoce and
to the work of clv11 rLghte attoroeya acrooa the aatlon ln 11t-
18at1ng votlng caa.a.

rn addltlon, we would llke to thauk you for allowlog Edward J.
Rubeusteln, a suEmer asaoclate wlth Davle polk, to draft ao
excellent memoraudum on the applleatlon of the L982 amendment
to pendlng caa6a. llr. Rubengtelnfs dlecuselon of the Ias ras
extreoely thorough and welL organlzed. I.Ie are 1ocludlng hle
memorandum ln a eourcebook oE the Act whlch w111 be available
for dlgtrlbutloa after January 1, LggZ.

I'le eoJ oyed worklug wlch each of these aaaoclateg. lJe are certalnly
apprectatlve of thelr very hlgh quallty Legal work.

S lnc e rely ,

JacL Greenberg

cc: Roy A. McKenzle, Esq.
Ronald Krause, Esq.
Mr. Edward Rubeneteln

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