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2009 Bronx terrorism plot

On June 29, 2011, Cromitie, Onta Williams and David Williams were each sentenced to 25 years in prison for their parts in the attempted attack by Manhattan Federal Judge Colleen McMahon, who criticized both the defendants, as well as what she viewed as the government's overzealous handling of the investigation.

Bruce Marks

He appeared to lose a 1993 election for the 2nd senatorial district for the Pennsylvania Senate, but a federal judge declared him the winner of that election after finding that the campaign of William G. Stinson had engaged in election fraud.

Charles Robert Wolle

Charles Robert Wolle (born 1935) is a former justice of the Iowa Supreme Court who currently serves as a senior federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

Coordinated management of meaning

Examples for the first three models have been adapted from ones Pearce uses in one of his writings where he analyzes the courtroom conversation between Ramzi Yousef, the individual convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in 1994, and Kevin T. Duffy, the federal judge who presided over his trial.

Eric Posner

He clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit.

Jeff Lord

He is the author of The Borking Rebellion, about the confirmation of Federal Judge D. Brooks Smith.

John M. Rogers

John Marshall Rogers (born June 26, 1948 in Rochester, New York) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Joseph Rummel

Both acts were rendered unconstitutional by Judge J. Skelly Wright, a federal judge from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, in the case Earl Benjamin Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board on February 1956.

Judgment in Berlin

Judgment in Berlin is a 1984 book by federal judge Herbert Jay Stern about a hijacking trial in the United States Court for Berlin in 1979, over which he presided.

Kimberly Ann Moore

Kimberly Ann Moore (née Pace; born 1968 in Halethorpe, Maryland) is an American federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit who was confirmed on September 5, 2006.

N. Randy Smith

Norman Randy Smith is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Oscar Hirsh Davis

Oscar Hirsh Davis (February 27, 1914 – June 19, 1988) was a federal judge on the United States Court of Claims and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Parlange Plantation House

Together they had one son, also named Charles, who survived the Civil War to begin a distinguished career as a State Senator, United States District Attorney, Lieutenant Governor, federal judge, and finally justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Richard Clifton

Richard Randall Clifton (born November 13, 1950 in Framingham, Massachusetts) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Rudi M. Brewster

Rudi M. Brewster (1932-2012) was a United States Federal Judge, best known for 2006 ruling in a patent infringements suit against Microsoft tied to the licensing of the MP3 format.

Scot Hollonbeck

In late 1988, after he had graduated from the school, a federal judge ruled that school officials had violated his civil rights, as provided for in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, by not allowing him to argue his case.

Sean Lee

Sean is also a grandson of Federal Judge Donald J. Lee of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

SEC Office of the Whistleblower

This, "220 million dollar PONZI Scheme", run by a father and son team Allen and Wendell Jacobson had a final judgment entered on December 18, 2012, signed by U.S Federal Judge Bruce Sterling Jenkins.

Sharon Prost

Sharon Prost (born May 24, 1951, in Newbury, Massachusetts) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Thomas Hardiman

Thomas Michael Hardiman (born July 8, 1965 in Winchester, Massachusetts) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Trita Parsi

In September 2012, a U.S. federal judge John D. Bates threw out the libel suit against Daioleslam on the grounds that "NIAC and Parsi had failed to show evidence of actual malice, either that Daioeslam acted with knowledge the allegations he made were false or with reckless disregard about their accuracy."


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2011 BCS National Championship Game

Before the match a moment of silence was held for the victims of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona two days before the game in which US Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and 6 others, including Federal Judge John Roll, were killed.

The game was played two days after the 2011 Tucson shooting, an attempted assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, that took the lives of several others, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl.

A Time for Burning

Youngdahl was the son of a former governor of Minnesota and federal judge, Luther Youngdahl.

Aaron Twerski

He has been appointed by Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein as one of two Special Masters to handle cases filed by workers who suffered respiratory illnesses as a result of cleaning up the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Angela Johnson

On March 23, 2012, Federal Judge Mark W. Bennett vacated Johnson's death sentence, citing a failure to introduce evidence about her mental state from an "alarmingly dysfunctional" defense team.

Arthur MacArthur

Arthur MacArthur, Sr. (1815–1896), lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and acting governor for four days; United States federal judge

Augustus Hand

Augustus Noble Hand (1869–1954), U.S. federal judge from New York, grandson of Augustus C. Hand

Barbara Jones

Barbara S. Jones (born 1947), federal judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York

Beatrice Foods

Federal judge Walter Jay Skinner ruled that Beatrice was not responsible for the contamination, although according to the book and film, based on new evidence brought forward by the EPA later found, Judge Skinner reversed his verdict and found both companies responsible.

Brendan Johnson

Johnson moved to Hill City, South Dakota, after graduating from law school to serve as a law clerk to South Dakota Chief Federal Judge Karen Schreier.

Brockenbrough

John White Brockenbrough (1806–1877), Virginia lawyer, federal judge, and educator

Cecil Poole

Cecil F. Poole (1914–1997), American lawyer and federal judge

Charles Fulton

Charles B. Fulton (1910–1996), United States federal judge from Florida

Charles Woodward

Charles Edgar Woodward - (1876 – 1942), United States federal judge, and formerly Attorney-General of Illinois

Clyde Kennard

They contacted Charles Pickering, a former Federal judge, and William Winter, a former Mississippi governor, who fashioned precedent-setting legal strategy.

Cokesbury College

Among the professors at the college was Charles Tait, who later was a U.S. senator from Georgia and a federal judge.

David Levi

David F. Levi (born 1951), Dean of Duke University Law School (United States) and former U.S. federal judge

David M. Hall

This recognition was awarded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and PennCORD, a civics education program championed by federal judge and Pennsylvania First Lady Marjorie Rendell.

Dorothy Wright Nelson

Nelson is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Drake University Law School

James E. Gritzner, current federal judge for the Southern District of Iowa

Francis Baker

Francis Elisha Baker (1860–1924), Indiana Supreme Court justice and U.S. federal judge

Fred J. Slater

In 1937, he was injoined by federal judge John Knight to refrain from selling stock of the Craig Gold Mine, of Madoc, Ontario.

George R. Carter

Roosevelt eventually appointed him Secretary of the Territory in 1902, and then Territorial Governor in 1903, succeeding Sanford B. Dole who resigned to become a federal judge.

George W. Anderson

George Weston Anderson (1861–1937), American jurist, Federal judge from Massachusetts

George Washington Woodruff

His political posts included Finance Clerk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Attorney General, federal judge for the territory of Hawaii, chief law officer of the US Forest Service under friend and fellow Yale alumni Gifford Pinchot, Acting Secretary of the Interior under President Theodore Roosevelt.

Gordon Russell

Gordon J. Russell (1859–1919), U.S. Representative from Texas and federal judge

Hatton, North Dakota

Kermit Edward Bye, federal judge on the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

James E. Kinkeade

Kinkeade was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

John Elbert Sater

Sater was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

John Keenan

John F. Keenan (born 1929), United States federal judge in New York

Larry J. McKinney

McKinney was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

Lawrence O'Neill

Lawrence O'Neil (born 1954), Canadian former Member of Parliament and current federal judge

Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866–1944), American jurist who served as federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as first commissioner of organized baseball from 1920 until his death

Priscilla

Priscilla Owen (born 1954), United States federal judge for the Fifth Circuit

Raymond Brescia

From 1995 to 1996, he clerked for Constance Baker Motley who was then a federal judge sitting in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Reed G. Landis

Colonel Reed Gresham Landis (July 17, 1896 – May 30, 1975) was an American military aviator and the only son of federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first Commissioner of Baseball.

Richard Christian Nelson

Among his notable commissions are portraits of former General Motors Chairmen John F. Smith, Jr. and Edward Whitacre, Jr., noted heart surgeon Randolph Chitwood, Congressional Medal Of Honor recipient Bryant H. Womack, and distinguished Federal Judge Malcolm Jones Howard.

Robert J. O'Conor, Jr.

O'Conor was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Robert R. Merhige, Jr.

Merhige authored the ruling of the three federal judge panel that rejected the appeals of Watergate criminals G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard Barker, and Eugenio Martinez and upheld their criminal convictions for breaking into the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.

Sebastián Casanello

Casanello was the only federal judge that attended the ceremony of president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who announced a bill for the Congress to reduce the autonomy of the judiciary.

Solomon Blatt

Solomon Blatt, Jr. (born 1921), United States federal judge in South Carolina

Thomas Blake Kennedy

Kennedy was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming.

Thomas E. Gaddis

Birdman of Alcatraz was the story of Robert Stroud, the grandson of a Federal judge, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary confinement after stabbing a guard to death in Leavenworth Federal prison in Kansas.

UKUSA Agreement

In 2013, Canadian federal judge Richard Mosley strongly rebuked the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for outsourcing its surveillance of Canadians to overseas partner agencies.

Utah Constitutional Amendment 3

On December 20, 2013, federal judge Robert J. Shelby of the U.S. District Court for Utah struck down Amendment 3 as unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

W. Page Keeton

Keeton's brother, Robert Keeton was a federal judge and a prominent legal scholar, who contributed to the writing of Prosser and Keeton on Torts.

William Brawley

William H. Brawley (1841–1916), U.S. Representative from South Carolina and U.S. federal judge

William George Juergens

Juergens was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.

William James Jameson

Jameson was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Montana.