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Obituaries

Aug. 4, 2017

E. Richard Larson, 1944-2017

Longtime civil rights litigator E. Richard Larson, who tried several key cases during his career at the ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and MALDEF, has died at 73.

E. Richard Larson, 1944-2017
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Civil rights attorney E. Richard Larson, who worked for the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund during his 35-year legal career, died at his Hollywood Hills home July 22. He was 73.

“We’ve lost a real titan in our civil rights community,” said Martha I. Jimenez, an executive vice president and counsel for The California Endowment, who worked with Larson at the Mexican American Legal Defense in the 1980s. “He was truly amazing.”

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