Reaching the Supreme Court Willie Earl Carr et al vs Saul By Paul F. McTighe, Jr., Attorney at law On April 22, 2021 I received an e-mail from Sarah Harris, of Williams and Connolly of Washington DC that we won the Carr case. The case of Willie Earl Carr et al v Saul, Commissioner of Social Security was decided by the Supreme in favor of my clients, Carr and Kim L. Minor in a 9 to 0 decision. The Carr and Minor cases were in the Federal Court system since 2018. This article will describe how the cases reached the Supreme Court. My story really goes back 50 years to my arrival in Tulsa in September 1970 for law school
Tulsa. At that time the TU law school was not on campus, it was in a small two story building (law library in the basement) on South Cincinnati. My aim was to learn oil and gas law and return to Pennsylvania. I did well at TU. I was ranked 7 in my class of 58 (December 1972), was on the Dean’s Honor Roll, was a member of the Law Journal and received a John Rogers Scholarship for several trimesters. Instead of returning to my home state, I stayed in Tulsa. I had something like 14 job interviews with law firms, Legal Aid, the District Attorney’s Office, the City Prosecutor’s Office and several Oil Companies. I struck out 14 times. th
After about 5 months of unsuccessful job hunting, I decided to open my own office without any contacts or clients. I borrowed $1,500.00 from a bank with my dad’s I moved to Tulsa in September 1970 from Western co-signature. The first years were very slow. After about a Pennsylvania to go to law school at the University of year in my first office I moved my office into a suite with
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