Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall used to say that they would have to “carry [him] out on a stretcher” before he would leave the judiciary. Health problems forced Marshall off the court in 1991, but his intention to serve until the very end held true for Judge Stephen Reinhardt, another giant of the law, who died unexpectedly on Thursday at age 87.
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