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5 unusual facts about Eugene Nickerson


1997 in LGBT rights

2 — District judge Eugene Nickerson in Abel v. United States of America, a challenge to "don't ask, don't tell", rules that the law in its entirety violates the First and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Able v. United States

The case was assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Eugene Nickerson.

Eugene Nickerson

He worked for Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley & McCloy, then Hale, Stimson, Russell & Nickerson.

Thomas Suozzi

Democratic Party bosses long favored Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, but Suozzi prevailed in the primary and was elected to Nassau County Executive, the first Democrat in that office since Eugene Nickerson left it in 1971, and just the second Democrat in the post-World War II era.

He was first elected to the post of county executive in 2001, the first Democratic county executive since Eugene Nickerson left office in 1971.



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