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8 unusual facts about United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit


Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a United States Circuit Court established in 1893

David Zarefsky

Some of Zarefsky's more notable students include: University of California, Irvine Founding Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky; United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit federal appellate judge Merrick B. Garland; and former White House Chief of Staff and current Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel.

Howard F. Chang

Chang was a law clerk for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1988 to 1989.

John C. Harrison

Harrison clerked for Judge Robert Bork of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and worked as an associate at Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C..

Rambus

On April 22, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned the FTC reversal of McGuire's 2006 ruling, saying that the FTC had not established that Rambus had harmed the competition.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Before the 1980s, Chief Justices Fred M. Vinson and Warren Burger, as well as Associate Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge, served on the D.C. Circuit before their elevations to the Supreme Court.

The court is given the responsibility of directly reviewing the decisions and rulemaking of many federal independent agencies of the United States government based in the national capital, often without prior hearing by a district court.

As of January 2013, four of the nine justices on the Supreme Court are alumni of the D.C. Circuit:Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.


Atari Games Corp. v. Oman

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sitting on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the decision of the trial court and held that Breakout was a copyrightable work.

Caitlin Halligan

On May 26, 2010, legal blogger Ed Whelan reported that President Obama has placed Halligan on "the inside track" to be nominated to one of two vacancies on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Caleb Nelson

After graduating from Yale, Nelson clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then for Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Christopher Reid Cooper

He served as a law clerk for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1993 to 1994.

Eric Posner

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

Jonathan R. Steinberg

He clerked at the Law Firm of Steinberg, Richman, Greenstein and Price in Philadelphia and served as a Research Assistant at the American Law Institute, prior to serving as a Law Clerk for then Circuit Judge Warren E. Burger on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1963-64.

Kristen Silverberg

Prior to coming to work for the White House, Silverberg served as a law clerk, first to Appellate Court Judge David B. Sentelle, and later to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Nathan Hecht

He was a law clerk to Judge Roger Robb of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Richard Bierschbach

Bierschbach was a law clerk for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Rod J. Rosenstein

He then served as a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Samuel Estreicher

After law school Estreicher clerked for the late Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, practiced with a union-side law firm, and then clerked for the late Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court.

Stop Court-Packing Act

President Barack Obama said in a high-profile press conference, held in the White House’s Rose Garden that he will nominate Cornelia "Nina" Pillard, Patricia Millett and Robert L. Wilkins to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.


see also

Committee on Degrees in Social Studies

Merrick B. Garland, judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1974