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Friday, Aug. 7, 1998 State 2A St Cloud Times Traflblazing female lawyer, court justice dies at 71 try settlement She believes the case led to fairer settlements. She also called herself "the great dis-i senter" in her later years, citing her) lone, strongly worded dissent in a decision that required state taxpayers to pay for abortions for poor women. To her retiring day, she carefully wrote her judicial opinions on notebook paper in pencil. She says typing was a distractioa arguing more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court an unusually high number.

She rose to the rank of managing partner. -In an interview with The Associated Press at the time of her retirement from the court, Coyne counted among her memorable cases a divorce case in which she believed that a profitable business was seriously undervalued, leaving the long-married wife with a pal the door first and told her if she left the rest of the class would follow. So began friendships with classmates including former Vice President Walter Mondale. Coyne graduated second in her class and did appellate work for 25 years for the Minneapolis firm of Meagher, Geer, Markham, Anderson, Adamson, Flaskamp Brennan. She specialized in appellate practice, Coyne served on state's Supreme Court from 1982 into 1996 SX PAUL (AP) Retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Mary Jeanne Coyne, who was among the state's pioneering female lawyers, has died of cancer.

She was 71. Coyne, who lived in Edina, died at home Thursday. Her family declined to provide details of her illness. Her death came less than two years after she left the court in late 1996. When Republican Gov.

Al Quie appointed her in 1982, she became the second woman to sit on the court, joining the now-retired Justice Rosalie WahL Wahl on Thursday called her colleague "a very committed scholar and writer" who was equally driven to help others in the field. "She was a woman lawyer who really did a lot in terms of mentoring younger women and law clerks who look at her to this day as a person who taught them how to practice law," Wahl said. When Coyne started law school in 1953 at the University of Minnesota, she was one of only four women in the class. A professor called on her and quizzed her for a full hour on property law. In an attempt to drive her and the other women out, the professor repeated the grilling.

By the end of the third class, she was furious. She picked up a book, slammed it on a desk and vowed to heave it at the professor and run out through a glass door without opening the door if it happened again. A male classmate suggested she open emewT cuty. Lots of Choices, Lots of Answers for the Way You Talk8 ST. CLOUD limes Herman USA' captures Bachelormania on film 11 MOTOROLA Official newspaper of Steams County and cities of St Cloud, SarteK and WaHe Park.

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Producers said their backing comes from a Twin Cities businessman. "There's so many wonderful elements about human conditions: naivete, love, greed and need. Herman made a cry and the world heard," Semans said. He added that the town took risks to find love and prevent its death. Herman resident Gary Findlay, 41, gave up his bachelor status last year.

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