Related Research Articles
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. It has the smallest geographical jurisdiction of any of the U.S. courts of appeals,and it covers only the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It meets at the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington,DC.
Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1943 to 1949. The ninth and final justice appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,he is best known for his impassioned defenses of civil liberties. Rutledge favored broad interpretations of the First Amendment,the Due Process Clause,and the Equal Protection Clause,and he argued that the Bill of Rights applied in its totality to the states. He participated in several noteworthy cases involving the intersection of individual freedoms and the government's wartime powers. Rutledge served on the Court until his death at the age of fifty-five. Legal scholars have generally thought highly of the justice,although the brevity of his tenure has minimized his impact on history.
Abner Joseph Mikva was an American politician,federal judge,and legal scholar. He was a member of the Democratic Party. After serving in the Illinois House of Representatives,Mikva ran for congress in 1966 but lost the primary to incumbent congressman Barrett O'Hara. In 1968,Mikva defeated O'Hara. Mikva served in the United States House of Representatives representing Illinois's 2nd congressional district (1969–1973) and 10th congressional district (1975–1979). He was appointed as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President Jimmy Carter,serving from 1979 to 1994. He served as the White House Counsel from 1994 to 1995 during Bill Clinton's presidency. He was one of the few people in modern times to serve in the executive,legislative and judicial branches of the Federal government.
Thurman Wesley Arnold was an American lawyer best known for his trust-busting campaign as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Department of Justice from 1938 to 1943. He later served as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Before coming to Washington in 1938,Arnold was the mayor of Laramie,Wyoming and a professor at Yale Law School,where he took part in the legal realism movement and published two books:The Symbols of Government (1935) and The Folklore of Capitalism (1937). He also published The Bottlenecks of Business (1940).
Arnold &Porter Kaye Scholer LLP,doing business as Arnold &Porter,is an American multinational law firm. It is a white-shoe firm and among the largest law firms in the world,both by revenue and by number of lawyers.
Judith Ann Wilson Rogers is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
David Stephen Tatel is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Davis Polk &Wardwell LLP,commonly known as Davis Polk,is a white-shoe,international law firm headquartered in New York City with offices in Washington,D.C.,Menlo Park,London,Madrid,Brussels,Hong Kong,Beijing,Tokyo,and São Paulo. The firm maintains an all-equity partnership,with profits per partner of over $7 million.
Loren A. Smith is an American jurist and academic. Smith currently serves as a senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. He served as the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims from 1986 to 2000 and as Chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States from 1981 to 1985.
Eric T. Washington is a Senior associate judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He was appointed to the D.C. Court of Appeals in 1999 by President Bill Clinton and served as chief judge from August 6,2005,to March 18,2017.
Elijah Barrett Prettyman was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. His son was American attorney E. Barrett Prettyman Jr.
Carl Eugene McGowan was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Malcolm Richard Wilkey was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and United States Ambassador to Uruguay.
Hogan Lovells is an American-British law firm co-headquartered in London and Washington,DC. The firm was formed in 2010 by the merger of the American law firm Hogan &Hartson and the British law firm Lovells. As of 2022,the firm employed about 2,500 lawyers,making it the sixth largest law firm in the world.
Susan Laura Carney is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Alison Julie Nathan is an American lawyer who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2022. She served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2011 to 2022. She previously served as associate White House counsel for President Barack Obama.
The attorney general for the District of Columbia is the chief legal officer of the District of Columbia. While attorneys general previously were appointed by the mayor,District of Columbia voters approved a charter amendment in 2010 that made the office an elected position beginning in 2015. The current Attorney General is Brian Schwalb,who has served since January 2,2023.
Anna Elizabeth Blackburne-Rigsby is the chief judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals,the highest appellate court for the District of Columbia. She works very closely with her husband Robert Rigsby and has great influence from her mother,Laura D. Blackburne.
Wiley Rutledge was nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 11,1943,after the resignation of James F. Byrnes created a vacancy on the court. Per the Constitution of the United States,Rutledge's nomination was subject to the advice and consent of the United States Senate,which holds the determinant power to confirm or reject nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court. After being favorably reported on by both a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the full Judiciary Committee,the nomination was confirmed by the full Senate through a voice vote on February 8,1943.
References
- ↑ Report of District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission
- 1 2 3 "Judge To Be D.C.'s New Legal Voice". The Washington Post. September 22, 1997. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Nomination of John Maxwell Ferren: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs". 1977.
- ↑ "Commission Honors Senior Judge John M. Ferren Upon His Retirement From the DC Court of Appeals After Over Four Decades of Service". 2023.
- 1 2 Legends in the Law: John M. Ferren Archived 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine , Washington Lawyer, April/May 2000.
- ↑ "Ideological Divisions". The Washington Post. April 1, 1985. p. D2.
- ↑ Letter from Corporation Counsel John M. Ferren regarding employment agreement with Charles Ramsey
- ↑ Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge