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  1. Jan 19, 2017 · Exclusive: Roe v. Wade’s Secret Heroine Tells Her Story. In 1970, Linda Coffee met with a young, unhappily pregnant woman who wanted to take on Texas’s anti-abortion laws. Over the next two ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Linda_CoffeeLinda Coffee - Wikipedia

    Linda Nellene Coffee (born December 25, 1942) is an American lawyer living in Dallas, Texas. Coffee is best known, along with Sarah Weddington, for arguing the precedent-setting United States Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.

  3. Jul 12, 2022 · Linda Coffee was one of the two lawyers who argued for the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973, establishing the constitutional right to abortion. Now, she watches the Supreme Court overturn the case and the erosion of abortion rights in the U.S.

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  5. MINEOLA — Changing the course of abortion law history in America began with a $15 filing fee in Dallas. Lawyer Linda Coffee wrote the check on March 3, 1970, to file docket number CA-3-3690-B...

  6. Jun 24, 2022 · Lawyer Linda Coffee, who recruited Sarah Weddington as her co-counsel in the historic case, started it all in 1970 by paying a $15 filing fee to the U.S. District Court in Dallas.

  7. Jan 7, 2022 · Weddington reached out to a classmate from law school, Linda Coffee, who had clerked for a federal judge and was perhaps better equipped to provide guidance.

  8. Sep 2, 2021 · Linda Coffee, 27 years old, on her way to the Supreme Court to make history. by Paula Bosse. UPDATE 5/4/22: See a brand-new video interview with Linda Coffee — recorded yesterday in Lakewood — in which she responds to the leaked Supreme Court draft, here. Also, the companion Dallas Morning News article (paywall) is here.

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