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¦ From BRIDGEPORT on PAGE 9 had noticed under the skin. He
his cancer, which was reported to was able to channel Thurgood
have started in 2016. The movie Marshall despite not looking like
debuted the next year. him.”
“It’s been reported that he While Boseman’s career Josh Koskoff, as it turned out,
included playing King
might have been diagnosed ei- T’Challa in Marvel’s “Black sat next to Marshall’s second wife,
ther at the same time or prior to Cecilia Suyat Marshall, at the pre-
the beginning of the shoot,” Kos- Panther,” the actor also miere of the movie in New York

koff said. “It makes me wonder portrayed such iconic figures City.
whether his absence from some in American Black history After the film was over, Kos-
of the activities was because he as Jackie Robinson, James koff said, she told him: “That
was simultaneously dealing with young man who played my
his disease and diagnosis.” Brown and U.S. Supreme husband was a very handsome
Court Justice Thurgood young man, but not as handsome
Koskoff said his parents saw the as Thurgood. I thought that was
movie at least 50 times and they Marshall.

thought Boseman was the right very, very sweet.” ¦
choice.
“There was a sense from my Robert Storace covers legal
parents that they were a little bit
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worried about his ability to pull off the role,” Koskoff for the Connecticut Law Tribune. Follow him on
said. “After awhile, though, they started to see the Twitter @RobertSCTLaw or reach him at 203-
inside of the man that Thurgood Marshall’s family 437-5950.

Second Circuit Grants Stay
In Trump Tax Returns Lawsuit

By Jane Wester
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
on Tuesday granted President Donald Trump’s
request for a stay of the Manhattan district
attorney’s grand jury subpoena for his financial re-
cords.
Attorneys for Trump and Manhattan District
Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. are set to make their argu-
ments on the merits of the case Sept. 25, the circuit
panel of Judges Robert Katzmann, John M. Walker Jr.
and Raymond J. Lohier Jr. decided in a one-page or-
der issued hours after hearing arguments on the stay.
Trump’s brief will be due Sept. 11 and Vance’s will
be due Sept. 21, according to the order.
Trump’s attorney, William Consovoy of Conso-
voy McCarthy, filed an emergency motion for a stay President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.,
on Nov. 6, 2019. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

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