Samuel Ray Cummings | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas | |
Assumed office December 31, 2014 | |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas | |
In office December 9,1987 –December 31,2014 | |
Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
Preceded by | Halbert Owen Woodward |
Succeeded by | James Wesley Hendrix |
Personal details | |
Born | Samuel Ray Commings 1944 (age 78–79) Lubbock,Texas |
Education | Texas Tech University (B.B.A.) Baylor Law School (J.D.) |
Samuel Ray Cummings (born 1944) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Born in Lubbock,Texas,Cummings received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas Tech University in 1967 and a Juris Doctor from Baylor Law School in 1970. He was in private practice in Amarillo,Texas from 1970 to 1987. [1]
On July 31,1987,Cummings was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated by Judge Halbert Owen Woodward. Cummings was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 8,1987,and received his commission on December 9,1987. He assumed senior status on December 31,2014. [1]
On March 1,2001,Cummings issued an opinion in Tannahill v. Lockney I.S.D.,which stated that it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment for school districts to have a mandatory whole school drug testing policy.[ citation needed ]
On November 16,2016,Cummings issued a permanent nationwide injunction blocking President Barack Obama's "Persuader Rule",finding,that its attempt to require an employer's attorney to publicly disclose advise provided to persuade against unionization violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. [2]
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