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- ↑ Hearing on the Nominations of Federal District Judges 107th Cong. (July 22, 2003) (statement of Senator Orrin G. Hatch), available at https://web.archive.org/web/20060923033554/http://judiciary.senate.gov/member_statement.cfm?id=867&wit_id=51; News Release, White & Case's Richard J. Holwell Named Judge for the Southern District of NY (Sept. 23, 2003), available at http://www.whitecase.com/news/detail.aspx?news=241.
- ↑ Gary Spencer, Pataki's Removal Of Prosecutor Upheld: Court, 4-3, Allows Action In Capital Case, N.Y.L.J. Dec. 5, 1997, at 1.
- ↑ Tom Brune, Accord on Judicial Nominees for NY, Newsday, July 23, 2006, at A16; Daniel Wise, Judge-Picking Dispute Delays Six Nominees; Schumer, Pataki Closing In on Power-Sharing Deal, N.Y.L.J. June 26, 2003, at 1; Federal Judicial Center, Judges of the United States Courts: Richard Holwell, http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=3027.
- ↑ , Judge in Rajaratnam Insider Trading Trial to Step Down From Bench
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- ↑ Lewis v. Zon , No. 03 Civ. 8359 (RJH) (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 28, 2008).
- ↑ New York State Restaurant Association v. New York City Board of Health , No. 08 Civ. 1000 (RJH) (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 16, 2008).
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- ↑ Daniel Wise, Prison Bureau’s Halfway House Rule Rejected , N.Y.L.J., Jan. 23, 2004.
