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In reply to the discussion: Foundation cancels RBG award ceremony that would have honored Musk, Murdoch after family's outcry [View all]rsdsharp
(9,236 posts)The Foundation is named for Dwight D. Opperman. Opperman grew up poor in Perry, Iowa, later went to Drake Law School, and for many years was the CEO of West Publishing. West publishes, among other things, state and federal reporters of legal decisions. If you want to read your state supreme courts published decisions, you go to the appropriate volume of the appropriate regional reporter. In the case of my state, that would be the Northwestern Reporter.
West also developed a keynote system, so that opinions are broken down by key numbers on specific topics to aid research. West also publishes regional and state digests which allows attorneys to efficiently research the law. Westlaw, the computer legal research program is an offshoot of the keynote system.
When Westlaw first came out in the mid 1980s, he gave Drake one of the first (actually I think THE first) Westlaw lab. He also endowed multiple annual scholarships at Drake law, which were full tuition, plus a fairly generous cash stipend. (No, I didnt receive one).
I dont know what the hell is going on with this award, or his surviving family (Opperman died in 2013), but he was a pretty good guy.