Al Meyerhoff
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Albert Henry "Al" Meyerhoff Jr. (September 20, 1947 – December 21, 2008) was an American labor, environmental and civil rights attorney. One of his cases sought to eliminate sweatshop conditions for workers on the island of Saipan, a part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands that operates under the jurisdiction of the United States federal court system.
Meyerhoff was born on September 20, 1947, in Ellington, Connecticut. He attended the University of Connecticut, graduating in 1969, and received his law degree from the Cornell Law School in 1972. He later told the Cornell Web magazine that he had been bullied as a boy, an experience that helped develop within him "an active dislike of the abuse of power".[1]