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Judge stephen schwartz7/30/2023 District Court for the District of Connecticutįollow The Vetting Room on Tags 2020 Amul Thapar Amy Coney Barrett Blue Slips Brett Kavanaugh Central District of California CFC Court of Federal Claims Court of International Trade D.C.Look up Schwartz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Judge Vernon Oliver – Nominee to the U.S.District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania District Court for the Western District of Louisiana If opposition gathers, it will be based on his youth and inexperience, rather than his political opinions. As such, it is unlikely that Schwartz’s nomination will attract the same intensity of opposition that Schiff has. However, unlike Schiff, Schwartz does not have a long record of inflammatory blog posts. Like Damien Schiff before him, Schwartz comes from a background of legal resistance to agency determinations. He also represented a franchise charged with wage and hour violations by the Department of Labor. During the transition, Schwartz was part of the legal team challenging FDA interpretations of exclusivity rights on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. In 2015, Schwartz moved to Cause of Action, challenging agency determinations that he considered abuses of discretion. ![]() Schwartz also joined noted advocate Christopher Landau in an unsuccessful appeal of a jury award against Avis Budget Group Inc. For example, Schwartz was part of the legal team for UBS Securities LLC in a case involving alleged violations of the Georgia Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. In this capacity, Schwartz represented large companies in trials and appeals in federal court. įrom 2009 to 2015, Schwartz served as a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis. Despite rebuttals from federal claims attorneys and Chief Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith, Cotton maintained his blockade, and the Obama Administration was unable to fill any vacancies on the Court, leaving six of the sixteen judgeships vacant. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who argued that the CFC did not need any more judges. However, the nominations were blocked by Sen. Halkowski and four other nominees to the Court were approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously. was nominated for the vacancy by President Obama. On April 10, 2014, Thomas Halkowski, a Principal in the Delaware office of Fish & Richardson, P.C. The seat Schwartz was nominated for opened up on October 21, 2013, with Judge Lynn Bush’s move to senior status. Court of Federal Claims (CFC), an Article I court that hears monetary claims against the federal government. Schwartz has been nominated for a seat on the U.S. Ted Cruz in the challenge to his eligibility to run for president. In November 2016, Schwartz left Cause of Action to become a partner at Schaerr Duncan LLP., a D.C> Boutique Litigation firm, that, among other matters, represented Sen. After five years there, Schwartz was hired as Counsel at Cause of Action, a public interest law firm focused on FOIA and administrative law suits against the federal government. Office of Kirkland and Ellis as a litigation associate. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.Īfter his clerkship, Schwartz joined the Washington D.C. ![]() After graduating, Schwartz clerked for conservative Judge Jerry Edwin Smith on the U.S. with Distinction from Yale University in 2005, and immediately proceeded to the University of Chicago Law School, graduating with a J.D. ![]() Schwartz, Trump’s second nominee for the CFC, has even less experience, having been out of law school for less than ten years. Specifically, I called out Schiff’s youth, noting that he was only 38, and had spent less than thirteen years in practice. Two months ago, I wrote on Damien Schiff, a nominee for the Court of Federal Claims (CFC).
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