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Leonard B. Boudin (
July 20,
1912-
November 24,
1989) was a prominent
civil liberties attorney and
left-wing activist who represented
Daniel Ellsberg of
Pentagon Papers fame, and Dr.
Benjamin Spock, the author of
Baby and Child Care, who advocated draft resistance during the
Vietnam War. Other opponents of the Vietnam war whom he represented were
Julian Bond,
William Sloan Coffin, and
Philip Berrigan .
He also represented other controversial clients including the
Church of Scientology,
Judith Coplon, the post-revolutionary government of
Cuba,
Paul Robeson and others (such as persons subpoenaed by the
House Un-American Activities Committee) thought or known to have
Marxist views or
Communist affiliations. Boudin was counsel to the
National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee and a member of the
National Lawyers Guild. He was the law partner of
Victor Rabinowitz, himself counsel to numerous left-wing organizations and individuals.
Boudin argued and won unanimously the first case in which the
United States Supreme Court invalidated a federal statute under the Free Speech Clause of the
First Amendment,
Lamont v. Postmaster General .
Leonard Boudin was the nephew of Louis Boudin, a labor lawyer and professor of
constitutional law at
Yale University. Leonard fathered two children, Michael and Kathy, who achieved recognition in later life.
Michael Boudin became a jurist and is currently the Chief Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Kathy Boudin was an activist and co-founder of the 1960s radical group the
Weather Underground, who served 22 years in prison for her role in a 1981 robbery that left two police officers and a security guard dead.
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