Vince Dowding

After graduating second in his University of Nebraska law school class, Vince Dowding moved to Grand Island to begin practicing law. He was only one year out of law school when he built the case that stopped the involuntary sterilization of people with mental handicaps in Nebraska. He got the case accepted to be heard by the United States Supreme Court prompting the Legislature to change the law. Vince Dowding also had the opportunity to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court on the constitutionality of requiring indigent inmates to pay a fee to appeal a case. He has always...