Irwin E. Blum, Assistant For Decisions On The US Supreme Court, 96, Washington Post
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Irwin E. Blum Supreme Court Staffer
Irwin E. Blum, 96, an attorney who worked on the staff of the U.S. Supreme
Court, died of heart disease April 1 [2010] at his home in Bal Harbour, Fla.
Mr. Blum, who had worked for the Justic Department, moved to the Supreme
Court in 1965 as assistant reporter for decisions and as an aide to Chief
Justices Earl Warren and Warren E. Burger. He retired in 1972 and returned
several summers as a consultant. He moved to Florida in the mid-1970s.
He was born in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1933,
after supporting his family by selling newspapers in the subway. He moved to
Washington and took an entry-level job in the federal government while
taking night classes at George Washington University Law School, from which
he graduated in 1938. He received an advanced law degree from GWU in 1949
and a master's degree in political science from American University in 1961.
Mr. Blum also worked for the FBI before enlisting in the Navy during World
War II. He served as a communications officer in the Pacific theater and was
engaged in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
After the war, Mr. Blum rejoined the Justice Department and became branch
chief in the Office of Alien Property, handling the disposition of property
seized from German nationals during the war.
He then served in the civil rights and antitrust divisions of Justice before
moving to the Supreme Court.
His first wife, Esther W. Blum, died in 1996.
Survivors include his wife, June Wagner Blum of Bal Harbour; two sons from
his first marriage, Edward Blum of Vienna and Gerald Blum of Annandale;
three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
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Patricia Sullivan