Overview
Correspondence, notes, press releases, pleadings, briefs, testimonies, printed material, and other materials relating to the abortion rights lawsuits Roe v. Operation Rescue, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women v. Knoll.
Dates
- Creation: 1987-1997
Creator
- Wharton, Linda J. (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. The papers of Linda J. Wharton were given to the Schlesinger Library by Linda J. Wharton in May 2022.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Linda J. Wharton is held by Linda J. Wharton. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1.88 linear feet ((4+1/2 file boxes) plus 1 photograph folder)The papers of Linda J. Wharton include correspondence, notes, press releases, pleadings, briefs, testimonies, printed material, and other materials relating to the abortion rights lawsuits Roe v. Operation Rescue, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women v. Knoll. Most of the photographs in this collection are or will be digitized and available online.
BIOGRAPHY
Attorney and professor Linda J. Wharton was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1955. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College and a JD from Rutgers Law School. From 1989 to 1997, she served as the managing attorney at the Women's Law Project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was co-lead counsel in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court in 1992 and reaffirmed the constitutionality of abortion. Wharton taught at Rutgers Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is currently an associate professor of political science at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 2022-M105
The papers of Linda J. Wharton were given to the Schlesinger Library by Linda J. Wharton in May 2022.
Processing Information
Processed: July 2022
By: Johanna Carll
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Creator
- Wharton, Linda J. (Person)
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Alice Jeannette Ward Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch02163
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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