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NYT U.S. Supreme Court Correspondent to Speak at Law School

April 1, 2004

Linda Greenhouse, U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, will speak at the University of Maine School of Law at 6 p.m., Monday, April 12. She will talk about "What Got Into the Court and What Happens Next?: The Supreme Court's Amazing Last Term and Fascinating Current One." The lecture is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a reception at 5:15 p.m. in the Law School Lobby. To reserve a seat, please call 780-4344.

Greenhouse has been the U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times since 1978, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her coverage of the Court in 1998.

She began her tenure at The New York Times in 1968 as a news clerk to the columnist James Reston. She was soon promoted to general assignment report and for several years covered county government and the New York State legislature. She was named a senior writer for The Times in 1990. Greenhouse also appears on the PBS program "Washington Week in Review."

Greenhouse is the Law School's Libra Journalist-In-Residence. The Libra Professorships were established in 1989 to attract nationally known scholars to University of Maine System campuses. The Professorships are endowed by a gift of $5 million to the University of Maine System by the late Elizabeth B. Noyce.

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