Allen Derr, lawyer who won landmark ruling, dies at 85 BOISE -- Allen Derr, an Idaho lawyer who won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling bolstering anti-discrimination protections for women, died Monday in Boise. He was 85. In 1971, justices issued their unanimous Reed vs. Reed decision. In the opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote discriminating against someone on gender grounds was the very kind of arbitrary legislative choice forbidden by ...
June 10, 2013 - KTVB Boise