“She insisted that we attempt to develop the law one step at a time,” fellow ACLU lawyer Kathleen Peratis later said. “‘Present the court with the next logical step,’ she urged us, and then the next and then the next. ‘Don’t ask them to go too far too fast, or you’ll lose what you might have won.’ She often said, ‘It’s not time for that case.’ We usually followed her advice, and when we didn’t, we invariably lost.”
