Jack B. Weinstein
Jack B. Weinstein | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
In office March 1, 1993 – June 15, 2021 | |
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
In office 1980–1988 | |
Preceded by | Jacob Mishler |
Succeeded by | Thomas Collier Platt Jr. |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
In office April 15, 1967 – March 1, 1993 | |
Appointed by | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Preceded by | Leo F. Rayfiel |
Succeeded by | John Gleeson |
Personal details | |
Born | Jack Bertrand Weinstein August 10, 1921 World War II Victory Medal |
Jack Bertrand Weinstein (August 10, 1921 – June 15, 2021) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Until his entry into inactive senior status on February 10, 2020, he maintained a full docket of cases.
Early life and education
Weinstein was born on August 10, 1921,
Early legal career
After law school he worked for the
Federal judicial service
On January 16, 1967, he was nominated as a federal judge to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to a seat vacated by Judge Leo F. Rayfiel. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 14, 1967, and received his commission on April 15, 1967.[6] He served as Chief Judge from 1980 to 1988.[7]
As a federal judge, he worked with a number of
Academic service
Following two years in private practice, Weinstein was a tenured professor at Columbia Law School from 1952 until commencing his judicial service in 1967. He remained on the institution's faculty as an adjunct professor until 1998. From 1987 until his death, he was an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School.[10]
Cases
The Second Circuit Appeals court reversed Weinstein's ruling in favor of the City of New York (Mayor
In March 2005, Weinstein dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange against producers of chemicals defoliants/herbicides on the grounds that use of the herbicide in warfare had been legal under the international law of the time.[13]
According to a May 2010 New York Times article, Weinstein entered the national
Between 2006 and 2007, Weinstein presided over a case involving the dissemination of Eli Lilly internal documents relating to the drug Zyprexa. Zyprexa was the subject of litigation in which the plaintiffs alleged that Eli Lilly had downplayed certain side effects associated with Zyprexa.[15] An anonymous "citizen-journalist" initially released the internal documents on the public Internet before Weinstein issued an order blocking publication of material that would "facilitate dissemination" of the documents.[16]
In August 2017, Weinstein amended his rule sheet to encourage junior female lawyers to take a speaking role in his courtroom.[17] In October 2017, Weinstein threatened to hold a dedicated hearing on police perjury after allowing allegations to go to trial that police officers had falsely arrested a cashier simply to claim overtime.[18]
In December 2017, Weinstein sentenced three gang members to up to eight years in prison for robbing at gunpoint a family and their five young children inside their home. In his statement of reasons for the sentence, however, Weinstein criticized mandatory sentencing for unjustly punishing the perpetrators as "society's unredeemables".[19] On June 11, 2018, Weinstein explicitly criticized recent Supreme Court precedent when he refused to grant qualified immunity to police officers who had allegedly beaten a resident when he tried to stop them from entering his home without a warrant.[20]
Death
Weinstein died on June 15, 2021, in Great Neck, New York (where he resided for most of his adult life) at the age of 99.[2][21]
Publications
Weinstein's publications include leading treatises on evidence and New York practice. He wrote a number of law review articles (not included below) and several books.
Individual Justice in Mass Tort Litigation: The Effect of Class Actions, Consolidations, and Other Multiparty Devices (1995)[22]
Mass Torts:Cases and Materials (with Kenneth Feinberg) (1992)[23]
Chapter VIII - Rulemaking by the Courts: The Judicial Administration Division Handbook, A.B.A. (6th ed., 1981)
Reform of the Court Rulemaking Procedures, The Institute of Comparative Law in Japan (Japanese ed., 1981)
Reform of the Federal Rulemaking Process (Ohio State Univ. Press, 1977)
Basic Problems of State and Federal Evidence (by Edward R. Morgan), 5th ed. Weinstein Rev., (1976)
Weinstein's Evidence (with Prof. Margaret Berger), 7 Volumes, 1975–1979, With Annual Supplements, One Volume, 1987, With Annual Supplements
Cases and Materials on Evidence (with Morgan and Maguire) 1957, (with Maguire, Chadbourn & Mansfield, 1964, 1970, 1973) (with Mansfield, Berger & Abrams, 1981, 1988)
Rules and Statute Supplement (with Mansfield, Abrams & Berger, 1981, 1982, 1987)
Elements of Civil Procedure (with Rosenberg, 1962) (with Rosenberg & Smith, 1970) (1982 Supplement 3rd ed. (with Rosenberg, Smith & Korn))
New York Civil Procedure (with Korn & Miller) 7 Volumes (1976)
Manual of New York Civil Procedure (with Korn & Miller) (1967)
Essays on the New York Constitution (1966)
A New York Constitution Meeting Today's Needs and Tomorrow's Challenges, March (1967)
Various New York Practice Annual Publications (Editor) (1960)
See also
References
- ISBN 9780787663773.
- ^ a b Mansnerus, Laura (June 15, 2021). "Jack B. Weinstein, U.S. Judge with an Activist Streak, is Dead at 99". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "Jack B. Weinstein: Judicial Entrepreneur".
- ^ a b Judges of the United States. 1983.
- ^ "WWII Profile: Jack B. Weinstein," United States Courts, June 16, 2014.
- ^ a b Feuer, Alan (February 17, 2020). "A Legal Lion Lays Down His Gavel With a Ruling of 'Love, Not Hate'". The New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
- ^ Jack B. Weinstein at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 7, 2008. Retrieved June 14, 2008.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Goldberg, Noah (February 12, 2020). "After legendary 53-year career, Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack Weinstein hangs up his robe at age 98". nydailynews.com.
- ^ "Judge Jack B. Weinstein | NYU School of Law". www.law.nyu.edu. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
- ^ http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov:8080/isysnative/RDpcT3BpbnNcT1BOXDA1LTY5NDItY3Zfb3BuLnBkZg==/05-6942-cv_opn.pdf#xml=http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov:8080/isysquery/irl93eb/6/hilite [bare URL PDF]
- S2CID 229170300.
- ^ Sulzberger, A.G. (May 21, 2010). "Judge Weinstein Takes On Child Pornography Laws". New York Times. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
- ^ Release, Press (January 8, 2007). "EFF Defends Right to Link from Internet Wiki". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
- ^ Feuer, Alan (August 23, 2017). "A Judge Wants a Bigger Role for Female Lawyers. So He Made a Rule". The New York Times. p. A16. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
- ^ Goldstein, Joseph (October 17, 2017). "Brooklyn Judge Seeks to Examine Prevalence of Police Lying". The New York Times. p. A23. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
- ^ Feuer, Alan (December 8, 2017). "This Judge Defends 'Unredeemables' Even as He Sends Them to Prison". The New York Times. p. A20. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
- ^ Feuer, Alan (June 14, 2018). "The 96-Year-Old Brooklyn Judge Standing Up to the Supreme Court". The New York Times. p. A18. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
- ^ Retired Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack Weinstein dies at 99.
- ISBN 0-8101-1188-8. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
- ^ Jack B. Weinstein (1993). Mass Tort Litigation: Cases And Materials. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
External links
- Jack Bertrand Weinstein at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.