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- ↑ Eighty-fourth Commencement Exercises. New York Law School. June 13, 1976. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
- ↑ "The Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, 1820 to 2009" . Retrieved December 22, 2019.
