Morris E. Lasker
Morris Edward Lasker | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
In office October 3, 1983 – December 25, 2009 | |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
In office June 24, 1968 – October 3, 1983 | |
Appointed by | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Preceded by | Richard Harrington Levet |
Succeeded by | John M. Walker Jr. |
Personal details | |
Born | Morris Edward Lasker July 17, 1917 Hartsdale, New York, U.S. |
Died | December 25, 2009 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 92)
Education | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (LLB) |
Morris Edward Lasker (July 17, 1917 – December 25, 2009) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Early life and career
Lasker was born in Hartsdale, New York and attended the Horace Mann School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1938 and a Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1941. He was a staff attorney of United States Senate Committee Investigating National Defense Programs from 1941 to 1942. He was in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II from 1942 to 1946 and became a major. He served in France. He was in private practice in New York City from 1946 to 1968, also serving as a town attorney of New Castle from 1955 to 1957, and as a justice of the peace for New Castle from 1957 to 1958.[1]
Federal judicial service
On November 28, 1967, President
Notable case
In 1975, Lasker denied a preliminary injunction to restrain the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from broadcasting edited versions of three separate programs originally written and performed by Monty Python for broadcast by the BBC, brought to court by Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin.[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b Morris Edward Lasker at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ Richard L. Madden, "Javits Delaying A Judgeship Here; Says He Wants To Study Setup of Federal Court," The New York Times, Dec. 14, 1967, page 68.
- ^ a b Marquard, Bryan (December 27, 2009), "Morris Lasker, 92; judge fought mandatory sentencing laws", The Boston Globe, pp. B10, retrieved 2009-12-28
Sources
- Morris Edward Lasker at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.