Recent coverage of the death of Justice Ginsburg contains an error of fact (also contained—but subsequently corrected—in a "New Yorker" article some years ago) that "a federal district judge, Edmund L. Palmieri, … agreed to hire her only after [a Columbia Law School professor] threatened never to send the judge another law clerk if he did not." Aside from the risibility of that "threat" (Judge Palmieri, although a Columbia Law graduate, hired law clerks from other schools) I can attest that the "threat", if made, was not the cause of the judge's job offer. Judge Palmieri was no stranger to professional women. His sister was a physician and he and his wife raised two daughters to be a physician and a lawyer, respectively. (And Ruth was not his first female law clerk. Jeanne Silver, Yale Law '54, was.)