The former Solicitor General of Texas who was one of the brains behind the NAMUDNO case has died in a plane crash. Someone forwarded me an announcement from the Weil firm, where Coleman used to work, and a message from a partner there, reading in part: “Greg joined the firm as a young associate, returned after his supreme court clerkship, and returned once again as a partner after serving as the first Solicitor General of the State of Texas. Not only was he one of the premier appellate lawyers in the country, Greg was first class in every respect. I often heard him described as a rare talent – he was also a rare human being.”
Such a tragedy. Condolences to his family at this time of great sorrow.