Roslyn Litman

In 1966 she negotiated a settlement with the National Basketball Association on behalf of blackballed player Connie Hawkins on the basis of antitrust.

In her first appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1989, she successfully argued to remove a nativity scene from display in the Allegheny County courthouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[1] One of Litman's first cases was arguing the right of the American Nazi Party to demonstrate in Pittsburgh.

Despite his prodigious skills, Hawkins was blackballed from playing in the NBA because of ill-founded rumors of involvement with gambling while in college.

[1] The suit alleged that the NBA refused to allow any team to hire Hawkins, who at the time was playing for the Harlem Globetrotters.