Professor George W. Cobb, et al.
Amici Curiae
Molly S. Boast, Counsel of Record Professor George W. Cobb is joined in this brief by five other statistics professors. Molly S. Boast is a partner with the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton, where she specializes in litigation and antitrust law. She received her law degree from Columbia University in 1979. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 10, 2006.The relative safety of intact dilation and extraction (intact D&X) compared to dilation and evacuation by disarticulation (D&E) is a critical question in the scientific debate surrounding…