Education
Hansen attended Carleton College and earned a law degree from the University of Chicago.
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Myriad Genetics (2013) case at the United States Supreme Court and the American Civil Liberties Union"s efforts in American Civil Liberties Union v. Reno (1997). Hansen was at the American Civil Liberties Union for 40 years, from 1973 to 2013, retiring as Senior National Staff Counsel, and the American Civil Liberties Union"s longest-serving attorney. He joined the American Civil Liberties Union in 1973, working with its new-found Mental Health Law Project.
American Civil Liberties Union v.
Reno (1997)
NYSARC v. Carey, 393 F.Supp. 715 (EDNY 1975) (the Willowbrook case)
American Civil Liberties Union v. Miller (North Dakota Georgia 1997)
American Library Association v.
Pataki (SDNY June 20, 1997)
Brown v.
Board of Education (re-opened)
Grand Lodge v. Zumwalt, 564 F.Supp. 1030 (World Development Mo 1983), 731 F.Supp.
365 (World Development Mo 1990), 873 F.Supp. 252 (World Development Mo 1994)
Jones v.
Clinton, American Civil Liberties Union amicus brief
Freeman v.
Pitts, 503 United States. 467 (1992)
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (2013)
September 11, 2013, "From Willowbrook to Myriad: Insights from Four Decades at the American Civil Liberties Union", Vanderbilt University.
