Following his embittered battle against Gore in courtrooms throughout Florida and in the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, Bush said he had a great deal for which he needed to give thanks.

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Engelmayer served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1988 to 1989 and as a law clerk to the Honorable Patricia Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1987 to 1988.

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With the help of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision they also put themselves a little further out of the reach of rapacious securities litigators.

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