The United States District Court for the Northern District of California is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of California:Alameda,Contra Costa,Del Norte,Humboldt,Lake,Marin,Mendocino,Monterey,Napa,San Benito,San Francisco,San Mateo,Santa Clara,Santa Cruz,and Sonoma. The court hears cases in its courtrooms in Eureka,Oakland,San Francisco,and San Jose. It is headquartered in San Francisco.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,Inc. is a leading United States civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.
Shira A. Scheindlin is an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Robert David Sack is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Rosemary Shankman Pooler was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Martin Thomas Manton was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. At his 1939 trial,Manton was acquitted of bribery,but convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice. He served 19 months in federal prison.
Crowell &Moring is an international law firm headquartered in Washington,DC,with offices in New York City,Los Angeles,San Francisco,Orange County,Chicago,Indianapolis,Denver,London,Brussels,Doha,and Shanghai. With approximately 600 lawyers,the firm advises multinational corporations on regulatory,litigation,corporate,and investigations matters. As of 2022,Crowell &Moring is ranked among the top 100 law firms in the United States in The American Lawyer's "AmLaw 100" list,based on gross revenue.
The New York City Law Department,also known as the Office of the Corporation Counsel,is the department of the government of New York City responsible for most of the city's legal affairs. The department is headed by the Corporation Counsel,currently Sylvia Hinds-Radix,the 81st official to hold this position.
Leonard Burke Sand was an American judge who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Richard Joseph Sullivan is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was formerly a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2007 to 2018.
Paul George Cassell is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah,who is currently the Ronald N. Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and University Distinguished Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. He is best known as an expert in,and proponent of,victims' rights.
Denise Louise Cote is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Gerard Edmund Lynch is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was confirmed to that seat on September 17,2009,after previously having been appointed in 2000 by President Bill Clinton to serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Lynch was the first appeals-court judge nominated by President Barack Obama to win confirmation from the United States Senate.
Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr. is a Canadian-born American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Formerly,he was an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and a senior trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. He was the chief of the securities and commodities fraud task force in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's office. He was recommended by New York Senator Charles Schumer for nomination to the seat on the Second Circuit that was vacated by Judge Sonia Sotomayor when she was elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States. Lohier is the first Haitian-American to serve as an Article III federal judge and to be confirmed by the United States Senate as a judge.
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.
Paul Jeffrey Watford is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2012 to 2023. In February 2016,The New York Times identified Watford as a potential Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
Mathew Martoma is an American former hedge fund trader. As a portfolio manager at S.A.C. Capital Advisors,he was accused of generating possibly the largest single insider trading transaction profit in history at a value of $276 million. A jury convicted him,and in November 2014 he began serving a nine-year prison sentence. He was incarcerated at FCI Miami as inmate 01138-104,and released early on 19 July 2021.
Cheryl Ann Krause is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
United States v. Valle was a criminal case in the Southern District of New York concerning Gilberto Valle,a New York City Police Department officer who had discussed on online fetish chatrooms his fantasies about kidnapping,torturing,raping,killing,and cannibalizing various women he knew,and had used a police database to find the addresses of some. Dubbed the "Cannibal Cop" by the media,Valle was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and,for the use of the police database,violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The presiding judge,however,acquitted Valle on the conspiracy charges notwithstanding the verdict,ruling that the prosecution had not proven that Valle's online communications went beyond "fantasy role-play". On appeal,the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the judge's judgment of acquittal and further ruled Valle's misuse of the police database did not constitute a violation of the CFAA,thus acquitting him of the lesser charge.
Paul Brian Matey is an American attorney who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Prior to Matey's judicial service,he was a partner in the White Collar Criminal Defense and Litigation practice groups at the law firm of Lowenstein Sandler LLP. He was previously Senior Vice President,General Counsel,and Secretary at University Hospital in Newark,New Jersey.
