Talk:United States District Court for the Northern District of California

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Is this this Court who decided in 2003 (or 2002, I can't remember) that the words under God were unconstitutional in the pledge of Allegience ?

Revas 01:54 GMT 16/05/05

No. That was the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. If I remember correctly, the appeal arose out of the U.S. Dist. Ct. for the Eastern District of California. But I could be wrong. Bruin03 18:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Removed text

I removed the following text, which strikes me as particularly POV. I'll see if I can find a better way of rewording it, but I suspect it's just been added as part of a smear campaign by a litigant in the mentioned case.

"Ronald M. Whyte, a judge known for enforcing an illegal injunction against free speech activists only to have it dissolved as a matter of law upon appellate review, sits on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. See Varian v. Delfino. Whyte was appointed by President George H. W. Bush."

kmccoy (talk) 08:51, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California → United States District Court for the Northern District of California – {Rationale: Per title formatting of other district court articles. See: Category:United States district courts}

Survey

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~

• Support. jareha ^(comments) 07:26, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Done. —Nightstallion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 18:13, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Removed U.S. Attorney information

I moved the blurb of info on the USAO to its own article. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California.

MJs

Should we have a section or separate page for MJs? "The court has appointed Paul Singh Grewal to the position of magistrate judge in the court’s San Jose division. Magistrate Judge Grewal will take the seat vacated upon the retirement of Magistrate Judge Patricia V. Trumbull. Before beginning his judicial career, Magistrate Judge Grewal practiced civil intellectual property litigation for approximately ten years with the Day, Casebeer, Madrid & Batchelder firm and with Howrey LLP (the two firms merged in 2009). Magistrate Judge Grewal earned his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993 and his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1996. After law school, he served as a judicial clerk to District Judge Samuel H. Bell of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and for Circuit Judge Arthur J. Gajarsa of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit." -The court clerk. --Elvey (talk) 12:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Another two:

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California is pleased to welcome two new magistrate judges to the San Francisco Courthouse.

Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley comes to the court from the law firm of Kerr & Wagstaffe, where she was a partner from 2009 to 2011. Ms. Corley graduated from UC Berkeley (1988) and from Harvard Law School (1991), where she earned magna cum laude honors and edited the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Corley served as law clerk to United States District Judge Robert Keeton of the United States District Court for Massachusetts before entering civil litigation practice, first with the firm now known as Goodwin Procter (in Boston), then Coblenz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP (in San Francisco). From 1998 to 2009, Ms. Corley served as Permanent Law Clerk to United States District Judge Charles R. Breyer of this court. Ms. Corley has also served as a court-appointed mediator and early neutral evaluator in this court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program since 2007. Magistrate Judge Corley occupies the seat vacated by recently-elevated District Judge Edward M. Chen and will hold proceedings in Courtroom E on the 15th Floor.

Magistrate Judge Nathanael M. Cousins joins the court from the Office of the United States Attorney, where he has served as an assistant United States Attorney since 2008. Mr. Cousins graduated from Stanford University (1992) and the University of California, Hastings College of Law (1995), where he earned membership in the Order of the Coif and edited the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. After law school, Mr. Cousins practiced civil litigation with the Greenberg Glusker firm in Los Angeles before clerking for Chief District Judge F.A. Little, Jr. of the Western District of Louisiana. After his clerkship, Mr. Cousins spent six years as a civil litigator at the firm of Kirkland & Ellis before joining the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in the Northern District of California, where he prosecuted criminal antitrust cases for five years prior to joining the Office of the United States Attorney. Mr. Cousins has also taught legal writing and appe llate advocacy at UC Hastings. Magistrate Judge Cousins occupies the seat vacated by retiring Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman and will hold proceedings in Courtroom A on the 15th Floor. (Magistrate Judge Zimmerman, meanwhile, will continue to hear cases and maintain chambers at the court as a recalled magistrate judge.)

The court warmly welcomes Magistrate Judges Corley and Cousins to the federal bench.

-The court clerk. --Elvey (talk) 03:59, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Succession_of_seats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Northern_District_of_California#Succession_of_seats - seriously? This is trivia; unencyopedic. I'm deleting it. Surely the Magistrate Judges are more important, and I'm not sure they should be included (see discussion above)--{{U|Elvey}} ^(t•c) 02:29, 5 September 2014 (UTC)