Gordon Schaber

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FILE - In this May 8, 1991, file photo, Gordon Schaber poses for a photo in his south Sacramento, Calif., home. Schaber was the Dean of the McGeorge School of Law. The Irish Catholic boy who came of age in Sacramento after World War II is an unlikely candidate to be the author of the Supreme Court’s major gay rights rulings. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s friendship with Schaber began in the mid-1960s when Schaber recruited the young lawyer to teach at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. Schaber, who served as the school’s dean for 34 years, was in the process of transforming McGeorge from an unaccredited night school to a respected institution that now is a part of Pacific University.(Genaro Molina/Sacramento Bee via AP)