Editing Thurgood Marshall (section)

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During his service on the Supreme Court, Marshall participated in over 3,400 cases and authored 322 majority opinions.<ref name="Ball-1998" />{{Rp|page=401}} He was a member of the unanimous majority in ''[[United States v. Nixon]]'' that rejected President Nixon's claims of absolute [[executive privilege]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zelden |first=Charles L. |date=March 2017 |title='How Do You Feel about Writing Dissents'? Thurgood Marshall's Dissenting Vision for America |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/jspcth42&div=10&id=&page= |journal=[[Journal of Supreme Court History]] |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=77–100|doi=10.1111/jsch.12136 |s2cid=151734746 }}</ref>{{Rp|page=78}} Marshall wrote several influential decisions in the fields of [[corporate law]] and [[securities law]], including a frequently-cited opinion regarding [[Materiality (law)#In corporate and securities law|materiality]] in ''[[TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc.]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Winter |first=Ralph K. |author-link=Ralph K. Winter Jr. |date=October 1991 |title=TM's Legacy |url=https://openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.13051/8662/15_101YaleLJ25_1991_1992_.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y |journal=[[Yale Law Journal]] |volume=101 |issue=1 |pages=25–29}}</ref>{{Rp|page=25}} His opinions involving [[personal jurisdiction]], such as ''[[Shaffer v. Heitner]]'', were pragmatic and de-emphasized the importance of state boundaries.<ref name="Tushnet-1997a" />{{Rp|page=1514}} According to Tushnet, Marshall was "the Court's liberal specialist in [[Native American Indian law|Native American law]]"; he endeavored to protect Native Americans from regulatory action on the part of the states.<ref name="Tushnet-2006" />{{Rp|page=338}} He favored a rigid interpretation of procedural requirements, saying in one case that "rules mean what they say"—a position that in Tushnet's view was motivated by the justice's "traditionalist streak".<ref name="Tushnet-1997" />{{Rp|pages=185–186}}

Like most Supreme Court justices, many of Marshall's [[law clerk]]s went on to become prominent lawyers and legal scholars. His clerks included future Supreme Court justice [[Elena Kagan]], U.S. circuit judge [[Douglas H. Ginsburg]], and legal scholars [[Cass Sunstein]], [[Mark Tushnet]], and [[Martha Minow]].