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April 7,1982
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down the hall.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Abe For-
tas, the first Supreme Court jus
tice to resign in the midst of
scandal and whose departure
began a trend away from the li
beral policies of the Warren
Court, died Monday night of an
apparent heart attack. He was
71.
Officials at Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital said Fortas was
admitted to the hospital
emergency room at 8:40 p.m.
“Justice Fortas, we think, suf
fered a cardiac arrest sometime
between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.
last night (Monday),” Inga Seck-
inger, Fortas’ secretary, said.
“He was taken to Georgetown
University Hospital and was
pronounced dead on arrival.”
A hospital spokesman said an
autopsy would determine the
exact cause of death.
Funeral arrangements were
pending. Seckinger said Fortas
is survived by his wife, Caroline
Agger Fortas and other relatives
in Tennessee and Africa. There
are no children.
Fortas, who resigned under
fire in 1969, made his first offi
cial return to the Supreme
Court on March 22, exactly two
weeks before his death, for
arguments in a case involving a
legislative vacancy in Puerto
Rico.
During his early days at the
Interior Department, Fortas
forged close ties to Puerto Rico,
and the territorial government
became one of the first big
clients to sign on with Arnold,
Fortas & Porter after its crea
tion.
A one-time Yale law profes
sor, he founded the prestigious
Washington law firm, and built a
NLRB declares
charge unfounded
United Press International
HOUSTON — T he National
Labor Relations Board has
asked two construction firms to
withdraw complaints against the
Oil, Chemical and Atomic
Workers Union, which has been
charged with blocking construc
tion at a Texaco Inc. refinery.
The NLRB said Monday the
complaint by Fluor Construc
tion Co. and the St.Louis-based
Brooks Construction Co. against
the OCAW was unfounded.
The board said it found evi
dence of construction workers
being used to perform jobs
usually performed by OCAW
members.
The companies said union
members were blocking con
struction of a $180 million cata
lytic reforming unit at Texaco’s
Port Arthur facility, which will
be used to make unleaded gaso
line.
Members of the union have
been on strike at Texaco since
the union’s contract expired
Jan. 8. About 3,500 union mem
bers are participating in the
strike, plus another 1,000 build
ings and trades union members
are refusing to cross picket lines.
Larry Stefflen, OCAW
spokesman said the NLRB rul
ing gave the union a moral vic
tory in its three-month-long
strike.
Stef lien said Texaco dosed
down all gates into the plant ex
cept one when the strike began.
“We couldn’t tell who was a
construction worker and who
was a company employee. They
(construction workers) were
doing things like replacing pipe
and concrete work.
“Those contracts are not
under Fluor’s jurisdiction.
That’s work we normally per
form,” Stefflen said.
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reputation as one of the capital’s
leading attorneys, with a lifestyle
that belied his roots as the son of
poor Orthodox Jews who immi-
On the high court, Abe
Fortas helped continue
the liberal tradition
pioneered under Chief
Justice Earl Warren —
coming down on the
sides of civil rights and
civil liberties and ex
panding the constitu
tional rights of children.
grated from England and set
tled in Memphis, Tenn.
Fortas, who had been one of
Lyndon Johnson’s closest advis
ers, was nominated to the Sup
reme Court in 1965. Their
friendship began in 1948, when
Fortas succeeded in having Sup
reme Court Justice Hugo Black
intervene on Johnson’s behalf in
a dispute in the Texas senatorial
primary.
On the high court, Fortas
helped continue the liberal tra
dition pioneered under Chief
Justice Earl Warren — coming
down on the sides of civil rights
and civil liberties and expanding
the constitutional rights of chil
dren.
At the same time, Fortas
parted company with his liberal
colleagues on several notable
occasions, including cases in
which they ruled against big
business mergers and sought
broader limits than he preferred
on press criticism of public fi
gures.
Fortas earned respect for his I
sharp legal mind. But after less
than three years on the bench,
he was touched by scandal -—
opposition to his liberal court [
opinions and his close relation- j]
ship with Johnson and questions!
about his acceptance of a!
$15,000 law school lecture fee.
But it was conservative oppo- j
sition to the “activist” Warren
Court — and Fortas’ role in it,— j
that prompted the Senate to
block his nomination in I968 as !
chief justice, casting a cloud that 1
hung over Fortas through the i
end of his sometimes stormy te- j
nure on the court.
Months later, new questions j;
surfaced —- this time about For-U
tas’ ties to imprisoned financier;:
Louis Wolfson — that set lh< !
stage for a move in CongressJ
that appeared headed for im "
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