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Justice J. Anthony Kline is a former California Court of Appeal Justice who grew up in post-war America in a diverse neighborhood on Long Island. He attended public schools and went on to college at Johns Hopkins, where he majored in philosophy. He then went to Yale Law School and clerked for a progressive judge on the California Supreme Court. After graduating, he moved to New York City and worked at a prestigious law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell. He eventually returned to California to work in the Legal Services Program, where he worked on class action lawsuits involving substandard housing and stopping urban renewal projects and federal aid highways that were displacing people from affordable housing.