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Ahcene Zemiri

In January 2007, the press reported that Ahmed Ressam, who had been convicted in 2001 of planning the Millennium bombing and alleged that Zemiri was involved in the plot, wrote a letter in November 2006 to the U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour.

Daugherty v. Vanguard

In the court’s summary judgment issued in September 2000, U.S. District Court Judge David McKeague ruled that Vanguard Charter Academy and its corporate parent, National Heritage Academies, did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution through its Moral Focus Curriculum.

Howard Shelanski

After graduating from law school he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, and Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court.

Mahmudiyah killings

Green was arrested as a civilian, and convicted by a civilian court, the U.S. District Court in Paducah, Kentucky.

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative

The case was heard by U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Tarnow, who promised to rule on the matter by September 8, 2006, to give officials enough time to print up the ballot.

Missy Chase Lapine

On January 7, 2008, Lapine sued Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld for defamation, plagiarism, or copyright and trademark infringement in the Manhattan, U.S. District Court.

Sale v. Haitian Centers Council

A slightly different case with the name Haitian Centers Council v. Sale was argued and won by Mr. Koh's team of law students from Yale before Judge Johnson of the U.S. District Court.

United States military chaplains

In August 2002, the D.C. District Court granted class action status to a lawsuit on the part 17 evangelical Protestant chaplains who challenged the Navy's chaplain-selection criteria.


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2011 NFL lockout

On April 25, 2011, U.S. District Court judge Susan Richard Nelson invalidated the lockout and ordered the league to resume operations.

Able v. United States

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

Alan Butkovitz

In 1980, he won a first amendment case in U.S District Court Third Circuit that opened up the Mummers Parade to women, minorities, and new entrants.

Allen Taflove

Then, Taflove and Chang won a unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirming the judgment of the U.S. District Court.

Bergenline Avenue

Esther Salas, the first Hispanic woman to serve as a United States magistrate judge in the District of New Jersey, and the first Hispanic woman to be appointed a U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey.

Brian Douglas Wells

On July 29, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Sean J. McLaughlin made an initial finding that Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was mentally incompetent to stand trial for the bombing due to bipolar disorder, indicating that this ruling would be reviewed after Diehl-Armstrong had received a period of treatment in a mental hospital.

Charles Ingersoll

Charles A. Ingersoll (1798–1860), American jurist who served as U.S. District and U.S. Circuit Court clerk during 1820-53 and as probate judge in New Haven during 1829–53; Justice on U.S. District Court for Connecticut from 1853 until his death

Charles Joseph Vogel

He was a Referee in Bankruptcy for the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota in 1924, and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from North Dakota in 1940.

Charles Redding Pitt

He was one of the attorneys of record for former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman during Siegelman's federal trial in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on charges of bribery, mail fraud, and obstruction of justice.

Colleen Kollar-Kotelly

She was appointed as a judge to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Bill Clinton on March 26, 1997, to a seat vacated by Harold H. Greene; she took her oath of office on May 12, 1997.

Daniel Leavitt

Dickerson may have been smarting from confrontations in the U.S. District Court battle, which turned into a jousting match between two of the foremost attorneys of the day: Dickerson representing Colt; and Rufus Choate representing the Massachusetts Arms Company.

David Barnes

David Leonard Barnes (1760–1812), U.S. District Court of Rhode Island judge & party in 1791 case, West v. Barnes

Donald W. Molloy

He was a law clerk to Judge James Franklin Battin, U.S. District Court, District of Montana from 1976 to 1978.

Filemon Bartolome Vela

Filemon Vela, Sr., the former federal judge appointed by Democrat President Jimmy Carter for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Fish Wars

In 1974’s United States v. Washington, U.S. District Court Judge George Hugo Boldt stated that treaty right fishermen must be allowed to take up to 50% of all potential fishing harvests, and required that they have an equal voice in the management of the fishery.

Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin

Robert J. Shelby - U.S. District Court judge - author of precedent-making decision on gay marriage.

Garr

Garr King (born 1936), judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Google Book Search Settlement Agreement

On November 14, 2013 the case, Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc. (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 05-08136), was dismissed by U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan.

Harry Toulmin

Harry Theophilus Toulmin (1838–1916), U.S. District Court Judge in Alabama, grandson of the Unitarian minister

Hassan Nemazee

In July 2010 he was convicted of multiple counts of bank fraud and wire fraud and was sentenced to 12½ years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Sidney H. Stein in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.

Incarceration in the United States

On December 21, U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson ruled in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of several inmates that Alabama's practice in doing so violated federal disabilities law.

Jacob Weinberger United States Courthouse

Originally called the U.S. Post Office and Customs House, the building also housed the U.S. District Court, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and the U.S. Weather Bureau.

James Patrick Leamy

He was a U.S. Commissioner, U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont from 1919 to 1931, and a Referee in Bankruptcy for the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont from 1931 to 1940.

Jeremiah Stamler

After the suit was rejected by U. S. District Court judge Julius Hoffman, Dr. Stamler filed an appeal; when the committee hearing began and his turn to testify came up, he cited the pending appeal of his suit and, refusing to testify until the suit had been finally adjudicated, walked out of the hearing.

John Biggs, Jr.

He was in private practice in Wilmington from 1922 to 1937, serving as a civilian aide to Secretary of War for Delaware from 1923 to 1937, and as a Referee in Bankruptcy for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware from 1924 to 1932.

John D. Bates

"In a December 30, 2002 decision, Judge John Bates of the U.S. District Court ruled that lead plaintiff Representative Dennis Kucinich and 31 other members of the United States House of Representatives have no standing to challenge President Bush’s withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty without congressional approval. He also ruled that the case presents a "political question" not suitable for resolution by the courts."

John J. McConnell, Jr.

On November 17, 2008, McConnell sent a letter to U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, expressing his interest in being nominated for the vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island that had been created by Judge Ernest C. Torres taking senior status.

Joseph A. Diclerico Jr.

Aloysius J. Connor, U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire from 1966 to 1967, and was then a law clerk to the New Hampshire Supreme Court from 1967 to 1968.

Keith Meinhold

On November 7, 1992, U.S. District Court Judge Terry J. Hatter, Jr. issued a temporary injunction against the Navy and ordered Meinhold reinstated.

LGBT rights in Oklahoma

On January 14, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge Terence C. Kern ruled that Oklahoma's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.

Linda T. Walker

From 1989 to 1990, Walker served as a law clerk to Judge G. Ernest Tidwell of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Mark R. Hornak

On December 1, 2010, President Obama nominated Hornak to fill a judicial vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania that had been created by the transition to senior status in November 2010 by Judge Donetta W. Ambrose.

Markman

Markman hearing, pretrial hearing in a U.S. District Court patent claim

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez

In 2007, Christian Sapsizian, a former adjunct to the vicepresident of Alcatel for Latin America, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court of Miami to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by conspiring with Edgar Valverde (the president of Alcatel in Costa Rica) to bribe an "official" of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE) and a "senior government official" of Costa Rica.

Murray Merle Schwartz

He was a Referee in Bankruptcy (part-time), U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware from 1969 to 1974.

New York Civil Liberties Union

Also that year, the NYCLU lauded a U.S. District Court decision, which ruled that a law banning wearing masks in public was unconstitutional.

Reed Construction Data

The suit was filed in Minnesota U.S. District Court, with BidClerk alleging that a series of “denial of services” attacks were directed against its online system, flooding it with “millions of page views.”

Richard Andrews

Richard G. Andrews (born 1955), U.S. District Court judge and former state prosecutor in Delaware

Robert Tait Ervin

During that time, he served as a Referee in Bankruptcy for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.

SCO OpenServer

On August 24, 2009, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the 2007 summary judgment of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, which found that Novell was the owner of Unix and UnixWare copyrights.

Stephen Limbaugh

Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr. (born 1927), former U.S. District Court Judge (1983-2008)

Steve Burrage

A member of the Choctaw Nation, he is the brother of former U.S. District Court Judge Michael Burrage, and the uncle of State Senator Sean Burrage.

United States District Court for the District of Alaska

The United States Congress organized Alaska as one judicial district on July 7, 1958 by 72 Stat. 339, authorizing one judgeship for the U.S. district court, and assigned the district to the Ninth Circuit.

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

In 2009 Judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, ordered a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML," according to an announcement by the plaintiff, Toronto-based i4i Inc.

University of Maine School of Law

Many of Maine's judges, legal scholars, politicians and community leaders graduated from the law school, including the Chief Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Leigh Saufley and Daniel Wathen, state Attorney General G. Steven Rowe, State Senate President Libby Mitchell, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Woodcock, former Governor John McKernan and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine, Paula D. Silsby.

Wesley Brown

Wesley E. Brown (1907-2012), U.S. District Court judge and oldest federal judge in American history at the time of his death