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On May 9, 2013, on the recommendation of Senator Chuck Schumer, President Barack Obama nominated Woods to serve as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, to the seat vacated by Judge Barbara S. Jones, who took senior status on December 31, 2012.
Kimba Maureen Wood (born January 21, 1944) [2] [3] is an American judge who is a senior district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. [4] [5] Wood received her undergraduate education at Connecticut College before gaining an MSc at the London School of Economics. In 1969, she earned a J.D. from ...
Blatchford and Sotomayor, after being elevated from the Southern District of New York to serve as Circuit Judges for the Second Circuit, were later elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States. The longest serving judge, David Norton Edelstein, served as an active judge for 43 years to the day, and in senior status for an additional six ...
Judge Woods may refer to: Charles Albert Woods (1852–1925), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; George E. Woods (1923–2007), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan; Gregory H. Woods (born 1969), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
From 2004 to 2005, Subramanian served as a law clerk to Judge Dennis Jacobs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.From 2005 to 2006, he was a law clerk for Judge Gerard E. Lynch of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and from 2006 to 2007, he was a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Zubulake v. UBS Warburg is a case heard between 2003 and 2005 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.Judge Shira Scheindlin, presiding over the case, issued a series of groundbreaking opinions in the field of electronic discovery.
Early federal and state civil procedure in the United States was rather ad hoc and was based on traditional common law procedure but with much local variety. There were varying rules that governed different types of civil cases such as "actions" at law or "suits" in equity or in admiralty; these differences grew from the history of "law" and "equity" as separate court systems in English law.
A former version of Chapter IX, contained in the original Rules of Civil Procedure, dealt with appeals from a District Court to a United States Court of Appeals. These rules were abrogated in 1967 when they were superseded by the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, a separate set of rules specifically governing the Courts of Appeals.