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The other justices voted instead to postpone these cases to avoid the obvious injustice that would occur were a mentally impaired justice to cast the deciding vote setting precedent for the nation.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2022
She’s a young woman physically and mentally impaired during one of the plagues that swept across the country.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
Her most famous work, “Light In the Piazza,” is the story of a North Carolina woman in Florence who watches and worries as her mentally impaired daughter falls in love with an Italian.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
Jesse Delbert Daniels, an impoverished, mentally impaired 19-year-old with a fifth-grade education.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
The Warden found a job teaching at a public school and worked a second job helping mentally impaired adults.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
