David Carliner served as the general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union ; helped to found the ACLU's National Capital Area chapter and Global Rights ; and served on the boards of the ACLU, the American Jewish Committee, and a variety of other organizations.
11 Facts About David Carliner
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David Carliner was the author of the ACLU's 1977 handbook on immigrants' rights and a coauthor of its 1990 revision.
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David Carliner was the youngest of four children of Leon David Carliner, a Jewish immigrant grocer from what is Belarus, and the former Cassie Brooks, who had immigrated from Kremenchuk.
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David Carliner attended McKinley High School in Washington and was active in leftist politics while still in high school.
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David Carliner planned to go to George Washington University until his high school principal wrote a letter in retaliation for Carliner leading a protest over a canceled football game and the university rescinded his admission.
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David Carliner died of a heart attack in Washington, DC, on September 19,2007.
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When Ruby sought to annul the marriage on the grounds that Virginia law forbade the interracial marriage to begin with, David Carliner tried to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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David Carliner's goal was to extend the recent Brown v Board of Education, but in fact Brown's proximity worked against him.
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David Carliner was a leading advocate within the ACLU to treat gay rights as a civil liberties issue.
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In Scott v Macy, Carliner tested this strategy by representing Bruce Scott, who had been fired from a federal government job on the grounds of his having been previously arrested for unspecified "homosexual conduct".
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David Carliner spent his career in Washington, DC, working in a small firm with a maximum of one or two other partners, including Jack Wasserman, Charles Gordon, and Carliner's son-in-law, Robert A Remes.