Stephen Reinhardt
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Stephen Roy Reinhardt (born March 27, 1931 in New York, New York) is a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in Los Angeles, California. He was appointed in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter.
Education and practice
Reinhardt graduated from University High School in Los Angeles. He enrolled in Pomona College and graduated three years later with an A.B. (Goverment) in 1951. In 1954, he received an LL.B. from Yale Law School.After law school, Reinhardt worked at the legal counsel’s office in Washington, D.C. for the United States Air Force as a lieutenant. Two years later, he clerked for district judge Luther Youngdahl, a former governor of Minnesota, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He then entered private practice, working for the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers LLP from 1958 until 1959 practicing entertainment law. After two years at O’Melveny & Myers, he began working at a small activist firm in Los Angeles that became Fogel, Julber, Reinhardt, Rotschild & Feldman specializing in labor law.
Reinhardt served as a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, California Advisory Committee from 1962 - 1974 and was its Vice Chairman from 1969 - 1974. He also served as member of the Democratic National Committee and as an unpaid advisor to former Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley and former California governor Jerry Brown. In 1975 he was appointed to the Los Angeles Police Commission, which he chaired beginning in 1978 until his judicial confirmation in 1980.
Reinhardt continued his public service as Secretary of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Amateur Athletic Foundation.
Reinhardt administered the oath of office to current Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, on July 1, 2005.
Personal life
Reinhardt is the grandson of influential director Max Reinhardt. He is currently married to Ramona Ripston, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Southern California, and has three children.
Awards
Reinhardt has received numerous awards.
- "1987 Appellate Judge of the Year" by the California Trial Lawyers Association.
- "1993 St. Thomas More Medallion Award" by Loyola Law School.
- "1993 Donald Wright Award" by the California Attorney for Criminal Justice.
- “1995 Appellate Justice of the Year” by the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.
- “1998 Champion of Justice: Legal Award” by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
- “2004 Award for Judicial Excellence” by the Idaho Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
- “2004 Meritorious Service Award” by the University of Oregon Law School.
Law Clerks
Reinhardt hires four law clerks every year. Many of them have gone on to clerk at the United States Supreme Court and become faculty members in law schools and leaders of various legal organizations.
Deval Patrick 1982-1983 Harvard Law School '82
Kevin R. Johnson 1983-1984 Harvard Law School '83
Marc S. Mayerson 1986-1987 Harvard Law School '86
Samuel Bagenstos 1993-1994 Harvard Law School '93
David Barron 1994-1995 Harvard Law School '94
Heather Gerken 1994-1995 University of Michigan Law School '94
Elaine Horn 1994-1995 University of Chicago Law School '94
Daniel Tokaji 1994-1995 Yale Law School '94
Peter Eliasberg 1995-1996 Harvard Law School '94
Carl Goldfarb 1995-1996
Kimberly West-Faulcon 1995-1996 Yale Law School '94
Hector Villagra 1995-1996 Columbia Law School '94
Kali Bracey 1996-1997
Michele Landis Dauber 1998-1999 Northwestern Law School '98
Ahilan T. Arulanantham 1999-2000 Yale Law School '99
Laura Faer 2003-2004 Columbia Law School '03
Joshua Civin 2003-2004 Yale Law School '03
Kate Andrias 2004-2005 Yale Law School '04
Travis LeBlanc 2004-2005 Yale Law School '03
Nicola Mrazek 2004-2005 Stanford Law School '04
Rick Su 2004-2005 Harvard Law School '04
Francesca Gessner 2005-2006 Stanford Law School '05
Seth Grossman 2005-2006 Yale Law School '05
Daniel Olmos 2005-2006 Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley '04
Lauren Sudeall 2005-2006 Harvard Law School '05
Greta Hansen 2006-2007 Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley '06
Dana Kaersvang 2006-2007 University of Michigan Law School '06
John Rappaport 2006-2007 Harvard Law School '06
Judicial career
Judge Reinhardt is known for his carefully crafted opinions.#redirect The following are some of his most notable judicial opinions:
- Ma v. Reno (9th Cir 2000) 208 F.3d 815
- It was ruled that an alien cannot be held indefinitely in detention in the absence of a repatriation agreement with his or her country of origin.
- Compassion in Dying v. Washington (9th Cir 1996) 79 F.3d 790 (en banc)
- It was ruled that a statute prohibiting doctors from prescribing life-ending medication for the terminally ill violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
- Yniguez v. Arizonans for Official English (9th Cir 1991) 939 F.2d 727; opinion adopted en banc (9th Cir 1995) 69 F.3d 920
- It was ruled that the English-only provision in the Arizona constitution was overly broad and violated the First Amendment right of free speech. This decision was vacated by the Supreme Court as moot because plaintiff Yniguez had voluntarily left the employment of the State of Arizona the day after the appeal was filed.
- Cardoza-Fonseca v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1985) 767 F.2d 1448
- It was ruled that the INS had conflated two different routes for seeking asylum and had improperly rejected an application made under one route based on the requirements of the second. This decision was upheld by the Supreme Court.
- Coleman v. Risley (9th Cir 1988) 839 F.2d 434, 465
- Standard to obtain asylum.
- Sanders v. Ratelle (9th Cir 1994) 21 F.3d 1446, 1455 (Part II)
- It was ruled that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel can be infringed if the counsel has a conflict of interest, even if the defendant has issued a waiver of conflict of interest.
- Silveira v. Lockyer (9th Cir. 2002) 312 F.3d 1052, 1087
- It was ruled that the right to bear arms is a collective right, not an individual right.
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