Jack B. Weinstein - Knowledge

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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. An

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on March 1, 1993, he continued to maintain a full docket of cases until entering inactive senior status on February 10, 2020. His change to inactive senior status meant that while he remained a federal judge, he no longer heard cases or participated in the business of the court.

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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.

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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

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in 1956) until commencing his judicial service in 1967. He was the first legal scholar appointed to Columbia Law School's tenure-track faculty after World War II and remained on the institution's faculty (likely nominally as an

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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.

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before opening his own law practice in Manhattan a year later—"in part because anti-Semitism at the time made finding work at a firm difficult." Following the recommendation of Columbia colleague

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In August 2017, Weinstein amended his rule sheet to encourage junior female lawyers to take a speaking role in his courtroom. In October 2017, Weinstein threatened to hold a dedicated hearing on

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for unjustly punishing the perpetrators as "society's unredeemables". On June 11, 2018, Weinstein explicitly criticized recent Supreme Court precedent when he refused to grant

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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.

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Crook, John R. (2005). "U.S. District Court Dismisses Agent Orange Litigation, Finding International Law as of 1975 Did Not Bar Military Use of Herbicides".

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by issuing a "series of rulings that directly attack the mandatory five-year prison sentence faced by defendants charged with receiving child pornography."

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Following two years in private practice, Weinstein was appointed to a tenured professorship at Columbia Law School from 1952 (becoming a

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Weinstein continued to teach at his graduate alma mater as an untenured lecturer in law. In 1949, he completed a clerkship with

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to police officers who had allegedly beaten a resident when he tried to stop them from entering his home without a warrant.

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Individual justice in mass tort litigation : the effect of class actions, consolidations, and other multiparty devices

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after allowing allegations to go to trial that police officers had falsely arrested a cashier simply to claim overtime.

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Individual Justice in Mass Tort Litigation: The Effect of Class Actions, Consolidations, and Other Multiparty Devices

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petitions in the Eastern District to bring finality to the claims of many prisoners. Although Weinstein assumed

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on April 14, 1967, and received his commission on April 15, 1967. He served as Chief Judge from 1980 to 1988.

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The Second Circuit Appeals court reversed Weinstein's ruling in favor of the City of New York (Mayor

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from 1943 to 1946. His duties included serving as deck officer on board the submarine

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Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

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during this period; eventually, he was a member of the litigation team for

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Leadership on the Federal Bench, The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein

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A New York Constitution Meeting Today's Needs and Tomorrow's Challenges

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Rulemaking by the Courts: The Judicial Administration Division Handbook

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People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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United States district court judges appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson

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