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Matt Curtin

Curtin's work includes helping to prove the weakness of the Data Encryption Standard and providing expert testimony in Blumofe v. Pharmatrak, in which a key ruling was made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, showing how the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) applies to Web technology.

Maureen Ohlhausen

Before coming to the FTC, Ohlhausen spent five years at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, serving as a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle and as a staff attorney.

Richard Raysman

Raysman is admitted to the New York and Connecticut State bars, the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Thomas Newman O'Neill, Jr.

He was a law clerk to Judge Herbert F. Goodrich, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit from 1953 to 1954, and to Justice Harold H. Burton, Supreme Court of the United States from 1954 to 1955.


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Chester J. Straub

In 1963, he began the private practice of law with Willkie Farr & Gallagher, where he became a partner in 1971, and where he remained until his appointment as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1998.

Crystal Nix Hines

She also clerked for Justice William A. Norris on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit from 1990 to 1991.

David O. Stewart

Stewart was law clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court during October Term, 1979, after working as law clerk for two appellate judges, J. Skelly Wright and David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

David W. Rivkin

From 1980 to 1981, he served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Luther Merritt Swygert, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Feminine style of management

, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled jobs held my men must be "substantially equal" but not "identical" to fall under the protection of the Equal Pay Act and that it is therefefore illegal for employers to change the job titles of women workers in order to pay them less than men.

James Beaty

James A. Beaty, Jr. (born 1949), U.S. District Judge and former federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

John Sanborn

John B. Sanborn, Jr. (1883–1964), former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Len Munsil

Munsil served in a judicial clerkship for Judge Daniel A. Manion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and was appointed by former Arizona Governor Fife Symington to the Arizona Juvenile Justice Advisory Council.

North Shore Country Day School

James L. Oakes '41 - Senior Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1992 to 2007

Otto Kerner

Otto Kerner, Sr. (1884–1952), Attorney General of Illinois (1932–1938) & judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for Seventh Circuit (1938–1952)

Otto Kerner, Jr. (1908–1976), Governor of Illinois (1961–1968) & judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for Seventh Circuit (1968–1974)

Paul G. Gardephe

Albert J. Engel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1982 to 1983.

Pierce Lively

He received an LL.B. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1948, and was a law clerk to Shackelford Miller, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit from 1948 to 1949.

Randy Smith

N. Randy Smith (born 1949), American jurist; appointed by President George W. Bush in 2007 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Stop Court-Packing Act

Stop Court-Packing Act (H.R. 2239) is legislation that was introduced in the 113th United States Congress on June 4, 2013, with the full title of the bill stating to "reduce the number of Federal judgeships for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit".

United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims was created on November 18, 1988, by the Veterans' Judicial Review Act of 1988.

Judges are appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate, in the same manner as Article III Judges.

Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center

However, in September 2007, the new administration of Governor Deval Patrick appealed Tauro's ruling to the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston.

William Pryor

William H. Pryor, Jr. (born 1962), American politician, lawyer, and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit