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James Hawkins Peck (January 12, 1790 – April 29, 1836) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Missouri. Education and career [ edit ]
James H. Peck served the District of Missouri beginning the first year it became a state. Samuel Treat was the first judge to serve Missouri's Eastern District. William H. Webster was the most recent judge to be elevated from the Eastern District of Missouri to the Eighth Circuit.
On March 23, 1830, Mr. Buchanon presented a report from the Judiciary Committee recommending that Judge Peck be impeached. [51] On April 21, 1830, debate on the Judiciary Committee report began in the House. Id. at 810. An impeachment resolution was adopted on April 24, 1830. [52]
Federal Judge James H. Peck was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1830 on a charge of abuse of power. [5] Peck had jailed a man for contempt of court after the man had publicly criticized him. [5] The U.S. Senate acquitted him in 1831, with 21 voting guilty and 22 voting not guilty. [5] [6] [7]
On February 22, 2011, Judge James M. Peck of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York rejected claims by lawyers for the Lehman estate that Barclays had improperly reaped a windfall from the section 363 sale. "The sale process may have been imperfect, but it was still adequate under the exceptional circumstances of Lehman ...
However, James Marsden, Taran Killam, Alan Thicke and Ron Melendez were some of the stars to contribute the 41 letters of support, which Peck provided to the judge. It’s noted that neither ...
James Peck (December 19, 1914 – July 12, 1993 [1] [2]) was an American activist who practiced nonviolent resistance during World War II [3] and in the Civil Rights Movement. He is the only person who participated in both the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 and the first Freedom Ride of 1961, [ 4 ] and has been called a white civil rights ...
The docuseries went on to share unsealed letters from Peck’s then-pals, including James Marsden and Alan Thicke, that requested the judge give him probation. As noted above, Peck served time ...