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[lastchoice]

Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders symbolized civil rights

12:00 AM CDT on Monday, September 22, 2008
By SCOTT FARWELL / The Dallas Morning News
[e-mail] / The Dallas Morning News
s Diane Jennings, Joe Simnacher and Lori Stahl contributed to this report.

Legendary U.S. District Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr., who oversaw the desegregation of Dallas schools, directed the overhaul of state schools for mentally disabled people and served as a legislative counsel to President Lyndon Johnson, died Sunday at his Dallas home after battling an infection. He was 83.

Presidents confided in him, federal judges leaned on his wisdom, and family members remembered a man with an unflinching sense of justice.

"He was truly larger than life," U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle said Sunday. "From the core, he symbolized civil rights. He knew that fairness took backbone, and that's why he was able to make history."

[my3sons87]

Loop, are you referring to Barefoot Sanders? If so, I am sorry to hear that.

[The Count]

Let's all say a prayer

for Judge Luckern's health. When I first saw Loop's post, I was thinking it was the ALJ at the ITC and my stomach dropped. I quickly remembered Barefoot was the judge in our years ago case, but that was an unpleasant second or two.

Sanders and Pumprey passing reminds me that Judge Luckern in his 70s, and if he were not able to complete this case (and Nokia) for any reason that would throw another huge delay at IDCC getting resolution. It's a very morbid and inappropriately selfish thought, it was the first thing that popped into my mind.

[bulldzr]

OT: He was one of a kind. Nobody agreed with him all the time... but everybody loved him some of the time.

He sure had a lot of guts... for instance singlehandedly taking on the core of the State of Texas Law Enforcement... the Texas Dept of Public Safety and the Texas Dept of Corrections at the same time... you don't see that kind of courage to often nowadays.

Can you think of anybody else like him?

Hope this post doesn't get all of the previous one's on this subject deleted. Ihub gestapo, if you want to delete for OT, just delete mine as usual.