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5 unusual facts about United States District Court


Coke R. Stevenson

Stevenson was granted an injunction by the federal district court, barring Johnson from the general election ballot.

Correctional medicine

In the 1970s, widespread intervention by federal courts improved conditions of confinement, including health care services and public health conditions, and it stimulated investment in medical staff, equipment, and facilities necessary to improve quality and organization of prison and jail medical services.

Magnet school

From 1985 to 1999, a United States district court judge required the state of Missouri to fund the creation of magnet schools in the Kansas City Public Schools in order to reverse the white flight that had afflicted the school district since the 1960s.

National Reporter System

Today, the NRS is the primary publication route for opinions from the federal courts of appeals, the federal district courts, and state appellate courts in many states that currently do not have an official reporter (either because they never had one or abolished it in favor of the NRS).

Tidyman's

On April 13, 1999, the United States district court ordered the grocery company to pay $6.2 million in what was one of the largest sex discrimination awards in Eastern Washington history.


Barbara Nitke

A three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York conducted a trial, and in 2005 found that Nitke and the NCSF had presented insufficient evidence that the variation in community standards is substantial enough to chill the plaintiffs' speech.

Chris Lamprecht

Under the order of Judge Sam Sparks of the US District Court in 1995, Lamprecht was ordered to 70 months in the Federal Correctional Institution, Bastrop.

Clark Waddoups

Clark Waddoups (born 1946 in Arco, Idaho) is the 15th judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.

Criminal law in the Marshall Court

One of the first statutes passed by the First Congress, the Judiciary Act of 1789, divided original jurisdiction for the trial of federal crimes between the district courts and the circuit courts.

Dellums v. Bush

1141 (1990), was a D.C. Federal District Court decision by United States District Judge Harold H. Greene, denying the plaintiffs, members of Congress, a preliminary injunction against President George H.W. Bush to stop implementation of his orders directing the United States military to fight in Iraq without first obtaining a declaration of war from Congress, the only branch Constitutionally mandated to declare war.

Donkey Kong

In the case, Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., a United States District Court ruled that Universal had acted in bad faith, and that it had no right over the name King Kong or the characters and story.

DriveTime

CarMax of Richmond, Virginia filed suit in United States District Court claiming DriveTime offered kickbacks to CarMax salespersons for each customer they referred to DriveTime, a violation of RICO.

Ernest Vandiver

Under Vandiver's administration, a United States District Court ordered the admission of two African-American students, Hamilton E. Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, to the University of Georgia.

George Evan Howell

He served as a Referee in Bankruptcy at the United States District Court, southern division of Illinois from 1937 to 1941.

Impeachment in the United States

Of these, 15 were federal judges: thirteen district court judges, one court of appeals judge (who also sat on the Commerce Court), and one Supreme Court Associate Justice.

Jeffrey P. Victory

United States District Judge Susie Morgan ruled in September 2012 that Johnson had the greater seniority but did not specifically require the state Supreme Court to designate her as chief justice.

Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

If such cases are determined to involve one or more common questions of fact and are transferred, the Panel will then select the district court and assign a judge or judges to preside over the litigation.

Kevin B. Kamenetz

He is also admitted to practice before the Bars of the United States District Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Moneta Sleet, Jr.

Moneta Sleet is the father of Gregory M. Sleet, a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware

Scott Warmuth

He is a member of the California Bar as well as the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the United States Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

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.

United States v. Alvarez-Machain

Despite vigorous protests from the Mexican government, Álvarez was tried in United States District Court in Los Angeles; the trial, in which his defense focused intensely on the legality of the arrest, resulted in an acquittal.

United States v. Extreme Associates

On January 20, 2005, District Court Judge Gary L. Lancaster dropped the charges, agreeing with the defense that the federal anti-obscenity statutes were unconstitutional, as they violated a person's fundamental right to possess and view whatever they want in the privacy of their own home.


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Allison Rutledge-Parisi

After graduating from law school and passing the bar exam, Rutledge-Parisi clerked for Judge Robert W. Sweet in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Anne C. Conway

President George H. W. Bush appointed Conway to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on July 24, 1991, to the seat vacated by George C. Carr.

Bryan Aylstock

Upon completion of his tenure at the Department of Justice, Aylstock served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Roger Vinson, Chief Judge for the United States District Court, Northern District of Florida.

Christopher Reid Cooper

On August 1, 2013, President Obama nominated Cooper to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to the seat vacated by Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who took senior status on July 15, 2013.

Cynthia M. Rufe

On the recommendation of Senators Arlen Specter and Rick Santorum, Rufe was nominated to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2002 to a seat vacated by Norma Shapiro.

Daniel D. Crabtree

On August 1, 2013, President Obama nominated Crabtree to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, to the seat vacated by Judge John Watson Lungstrum, who took senior status on November 2, 2010.

Debra M. Brown

On May 16, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Brown to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, to the seat vacated by Judge W. Allen Pepper, Jr., who died on January 24, 2012.

Douglas L. Rayes

On September 19, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Rayes to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, to the seat vacated by Judge Frederick J. Martone, who took senior status on January 30, 2013.

Edward G. Smith

On August 1, 2013, President Obama nominated Smith to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to the seat vacated by Judge Berle M. Schiller, who took senior status on June 18, 2012.

Eleanor Ross

Eleanor Louise Ross (born 1967), Georgia state judge and judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Elizabeth Erny Foote

In February 2009, Foote wrote to Senator Mary Landrieu to discuss being considered for an upcoming vacancy on the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

Fishman Affidavit

Andre Tabayoyon -- Affidavit referenced in the case, in United States District Court.

Frank Burgess

Burgess became a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington when President Bill Clinton nominated him on November 19, 1993, to a seat vacated by Tanner.

George J. Hazel

On September 25, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Hazel to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, to the seat vacated by Judge Alexander Williams, Jr., who took senior status on May 8, 2013.

Georgia State University College of Law

Thomas W. Thrash, Professor of Law (1986-1997) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr.

On August 1, 2013, President Obama nominated McHugh to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to the seat vacated by Judge Harvey Bartle III, who took senior status on October 1, 2011.

Gerald Bruce Lee

In April 1998, Virginia's U.S. senators Chuck Robb and John Warner recommended Lee for appointment to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, to fill the seat vacated when Judge James C. Cacheris took senior status.

Gerald Lee

Gerald Bruce Lee (born 1952), judge on the United States District Court

Gettleman

Robert William Gettleman, federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Indira Talwani

On September 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Talwani to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, to the seat vacated by Judge Mark L. Wolf, who took senior status on January 1, 2013.

James Maxwell Moody, Jr.

Moody is the son of Judge James Maxwell Moody, currently a Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

Jeff White

Jeffrey White (born 1945), District Judge serving on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California

John Gerrard

John M. Gerrard (born 1953), judge on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska and formerly a Justice of the Nebraska State Supreme Court

John Joseph Tuchi

On September 19, 2013, President Obama nominated Tuchi to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, to the seat vacated by Judge Roslyn O. Silver, who took senior status on September 3, 2013.

Laurie J. Michelson

On July 25, 2013, President Obama nominated Michelson to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, to the seat vacated by Judge George Caram Steeh III, who took senior status on January 29, 2013.

Leslie Fagen

He clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad

On July 30, 2010, Royce C. Lamberth, a federal judge of the United States District Court in Washington, ruled in favor of the Chabad organization, ordering Russia to turn over all Schneerson documents held at the Russian State Library, the Russian State Military Archive and elsewhere.

Limbaugh family

Stephen Nathaniel Limbaugh, Sr., (b. 1927), a retired United States District Court judge.

Linda T. Walker

Walker was recommended for a judgeship on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia by Republican Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson.

Linda Vivienne Parker

On July 25, 2013, President Obama nominated Parker to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, to the seat vacated by Judge Robert Hardy Cleland, who took senior status on March 1, 2013.

Matthew Frederick Leitman

On July 25, 2013, President Obama nominated Leitman to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, to the seat vacated by Judge Marianne O. Battani, who took senior status on June 10, 2012.

Michael F. Urbanski

From 1981 until 1982, Urbanski served as a law clerk to Judge James Clinton Turk of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

Michael Scionti

He has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1996 and is licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

Mississippi College School of Law

The Honorable Michael Parker - Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, 2006–Present

Nancy J. Rosenstengel

From 1998 to 2009, she served as a career law clerk to Judge G. Patrick Murphy of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

Pedro A. Delgado Hernández

On June 26, 2013, President Obama nominated Delgado Hernández to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, to the seat vacated by Judge Daniel R. Dominguez, who retired on July 31, 2011.

Rasul v. Rumsfeld

Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Ruhal Ahmed, and Jamal Al-Harith, four former Guantánamo Bay detainees, filed suit in 2004 in the United States District Court in Washington, DC against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Richard Franklin Boulware II

On January 16, 2014, President Obama nominated Boulware to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, to the seat vacated by Judge Philip Martin Pro, who took senior status on December 31, 2011.

Robin J. Cauthron

Ralph Gordon Thompson, of the United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma from 1977 to 1981.

Samuel King

Samuel Pailthorpe King (1916–2010), American lawyer and judge on the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii

Scott W. Skavdahl

From 1994 to 1997, Skavdahl served as a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge William F. Downes of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming.

Sheryl H. Lipman

On August 1, 2013, President Obama nominated Lipman to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, to the seat being vacated by Judge Jon Phipps McCalla, who is taking senior status on August 23, 2013.

Stanley Allen Bastian

On September 19, 2013, President Obama nominated Bastian to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, to the seat vacated by Judge Edward F. Shea, who took senior status on June 7, 2012.

Steven Paul Logan

On September 19, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Logan to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, to the seat vacated by Judge James A. Teilborg, who took senior status on January 30, 2013.

Terrence Berg

Terrence G. Berg (born 1959), federal judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Theodore D. Chuang

On September 25, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Chuang to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, to the seat being vacated by Judge Roger W. Titus, who is taking senior status on January 17, 2014.

United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (in case citations, S.D. Miss.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit with facilities in Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Natchez, Meridian, and Jackson.

University of Detroit Mercy School of Law

Patrick J. Duggan (Class of 58')- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Urbina

Ricardo M. Urbina (born 1946), United States District Court Judge in Washington, DC

William Spade

He clerked for the Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1994-95, before working for ten years as a prosecutor with the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.