He was known for his advocacy in favor of gender equality, Vietnam War objectors, the fight against government censorship, and the Civil rights movement.
[4] In addition to the ACLU, the LCDC included founding members from the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the American Jewish Committee, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the American Jewish Congress, the National Council of Churches' Commission on Race and Religion, and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
[5] In 1964, Wulf recruited civil rights lawyer Charles Morgan Jr. to open the ACLU's Southern Regional Office in Atlanta, Georgia.
[6] A notable development in this advocacy was the case of Dr. Benjamin Spock, a prominent pediatrician and one of five men (the "Boston Five") federally indicted in 1968 for conspiring to counsel evasion of the Vietnam draft.
Oestereich's educational status exempted him from service, but after he returned his registration certificate as a form of antiwar protest, he received a delinquency notice and was reclassified as I-A.
Co-authored with lawyer Ruth Emerson, the brief expanded the concept of right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
[13] Although the case was unsuccessful on procedural grounds,[14] Justice Harlan's dissent discussing the Due Process Clause was quoted by the Supreme Court in the 1973 decision in Roe v.
In the first case, the IRS had denied a tax deduction to Charles Moritz for expenses for the care of his dependent invalid mother, on the grounds that he was not a woman and had never married.
In the fall of 1970, Ginsburg, then a Rutgers Law School professor, asked Wulf to provide ACLU support and funding to appeal the Tax Court's affirmation of the IRS position.
The probate court selected Cecil in accordance with Idaho state law, which specified that "As between persons equally entitled to administer a decedent’s estate, males must be preferred to females.
[18] Wulf was also key in establishing the ACLU's Women's Rights Project, which hired Ginsburg and lawyer Brenda Feigen as its first co-directors in 1972.
The firm challenged book-banning before the Supreme Court, defended two authors against libel charges from the Church of Scientology, and represented such clients as Philip Agee and Frank Serpico.