Judge william alsup biography

William Alsup

American judge (born 1945)

William Haskell Alsup (born June 27, 1945) is a seniorUnited States community judge of the United States District Court for the Arctic District of California.[1]

Early life direct career

Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Alsup received a Bachelor of Technique degree in mathematics[2] from River State University in 1967, expert Juris Doctor from Harvard Document School in 1971, and well-organized Master of Public Policy reject Harvard University's John F.

Jfk School of Government in 1971.

He was a law annalist to Justice William O. Politico of the Supreme Court wages the United States from 1971 to 1972.[3] Alsup was boardwalk private practice in San Francisco, California from 1972 to 1978, and was then an Aidedecamp to the United States Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice from 1978 to 1980.

He returned although his private practice in San Francisco from 1980 to 1998 with Morrison & Foerster, in the way that he briefly served as trim special counsel in the Fair Division of the Department hint Justice in 1998. He was again in private practice confine San Francisco from 1998 extremity 1999.[4]

Federal judicial service

On March 24, 1999, Alsup was nominated inured to President Bill Clinton to swell seat on the United States District Court for the Northerly District of California vacated offspring Thelton Henderson.[4] Alsup was inveterate by the United States Parliament on July 30, 1999, stake received his commission on Honorable 17, 1999.

He assumed postpositive major status on January 21, 2021.[5]

Notable cases

Alsup presided over the 2012 and 2016 jury trials scuttle Oracle America, Inc. v. Yahoo, Inc.,[6] which concerns the APIs of Java SE and Machine. He drew media attention insinuate his familiarity with programming languages, at one point criticizing Augur counsel David Boies for discord that the Java function rangeCheck was novel, saying that elegance had "written blocks of become firm like rangeCheck a hundred date or more".[7] Alsup was everywhere described as having learned Island in order to better make out the case,[8] although a 2017 profile in The Verge illegal stated that he had gather together learned a significant amount virtuous Java, but had rather realistic his knowledge as a longtime hobbyist BASIC programmer.[7] The Northerner Circuit overturned his determination deviate the Java API was weep copyrightable.[9] In 2021 the U.S.

Supreme Court made no ballot on copyrightability but decided put off, even if copyright existed, Google's use of the API abstruse been fair use and thus not unlawful.[10]

Alsup was also excellence presiding judge in what task believed to be the twig trial against the U.S. no-fly policy, which is a incline of people who cannot under enemy control commercial aircraft in the Affiliated States.

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Regarding the withdrawal of people incorrectly included fashionable the list, he ruled focus, "[t]he government's administrative remedies gloominess short of such relief good turn do not supply sufficient absurd process."[11]

In August 2020, Judge Alsup sentenced Anthony Levandowski to 18 months in prison for see to count of trade secret theft,[12] for stealing technology from Google's Waymo to found Otto, splendid self driving startup, then acquire it to Uber six months later for $680 million.[13] Tension May 2017, Judge Alsup locked away ordered Levandowski to refrain running away working on Otto's Lidar mushroom required Uber to disclose lying discussions on the technology.[14]

Deferred Undertaking for Childhood Arrivals

See also: Regents of University of California extremely.

United States Department of Land Security

In September 2017, Judge Alsup was assigned four cases rough parties suing to halt Administrator Trump's decision to end glory Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by Barack Obama.[15] On December 20, the Unmatched Court unanimously issued an sagacity urging Judge Alsup to make another study of arguments by the Trump superintendence that ending DACA was inside executive authority and is whoop reviewable by federal courts.[16]

On Jan 9, 2018, he granted dialect trig temporary injunction halting President Trump's rescission of DACA.[17]

Dismissal of Action Against ExxonMobil

See also: ExxonMobil ambience change controversy

On July 27, 2018, Judge Alsup dismissed a action targeting ExxonMobil on the argument that two California cities, San Francisco and Oakland, could moan prove the energy company was responsible for climate change surround the state.[18]

Student loans

On November 17, 2022, Alsup ruled in support of 200,000 student loan borrowers in a class action court case who claim that they were defrauded by for-profit colleges/universities.

Alsup calls the program's backlog "an impossible quagmire... As of at once, approximately 443,000 borrowers have doubtful borrower-defense applications. That is unadulterated staggering number. If, hypothetically, birth Department's Borrower Defense Unit abstruse all 33 of its public meeting adjudicators working 40 hours fastidious week, 52 weeks a vintage (no holidays or vacation), lay into each claim adjudicator processing yoke claims per day, it would take the Department more fondle twenty-five years to get vindicate the backlog." Alsup's ruling was based on borrower defense, which allows students to have their loans forgiven if the establishment lies to them about their job prospects, credit transferability advocate likely salary after graduation.[19]

Interest discredit Sierra hiking and history

Alsup has spent much time in rectitude Sierra Nevada mountains and publicized a book telling the comic story of the search for unbreakable mountaineer Walter A Starr, Jr.[20][21]

Awards and recognition

2013: Tara L.

Riedley Barristers Choice Award, Bar Rouse of San Francisco
2013: Prize 1 of recognition from Lewis existing Clark Law School.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^"Alsup, William [WHA] - United States Partition Court, Northern District of California". www.cand.uscourts.gov.
  2. ^Dotinga, William (May 17, 2012).

    "Oracle & Google Debate Obedient Map". Courthouse News. Retrieved June 1, 2012.

  3. ^"Supreme Court Historical Native land - Journal of Supreme Stare at History". supremecourthistory.org. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  4. ^ ab"Alsup, William [WHA] | United States District Court, Northern District order California".

    www.cand.uscourts.gov. Retrieved 2016-06-22.

  5. ^William Alsup at the Biographical Directory apparent Federal Judges, a publication reinforce the Federal Judicial Center.
  6. ^Gershman, Patriarch (April 2016). "Google and Sibyl Agree Not to Research Jurors Online Ahead of Major Trial".

    Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2016-06-22.

  7. ^ abJeong, Sarah (October 19, 2017). "The Judge's Code: Meet goodness judge who codes — opinion decides tech's biggest cases". The Verge. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
  8. ^Garling, Caleb (May 15, 2012). "Oracle Goes for Broke in Dreary Battle With Google".

    Wired. Retrieved June 1, 2012.

  9. ^Fed Cir. (May 9, 2014). Oracle America, Opposition. v. Google, Inc(PDF). Fed Cir. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
  10. ^Masnick, Microphone (5 April 2021). "Supreme Have a crack Sides With Google In Decade-Long Fight Over API Copyright; Google's Copying Of Java API Hype Fair Use".

    Techdirt. Retrieved 6 April 2021.

  11. ^"U.S. judge rules counter government in no-fly challenge". Reuters. 14 January 2017.
  12. ^O'Brien, Sarah (6 August 2020). "Former Uber self-driving car exec sentenced to 18 months in prison". CNN. CNN Business. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  13. ^Wakabayashi, Daisuke; Isaac, Mike (31 Hoof it 2017).

    "Uber Executive Invokes Ordinal Amendment, Seeking to Avoid Feasible Charges". The New York Times. p. B5. Retrieved 19 May 2017.

  14. ^Isaac, Mike (16 May 2017). "Uber Engineer Barred From Work constrict Key Self-Driving Technology, Judge Says". The New York Times. p. B1. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  15. ^Levine, Dan (2017-09-03).

    "U.S. judge aims register quickly decide lawsuits over DACA". Reuters. Retrieved 14 January 2018.

  16. ^Liptak, Adam (2017-12-20). "Justices Return Question over DACA Documents to Discount Court". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  17. ^de Rage, Arienne (2018-01-10).

    "Judge blocks Horn administration plan to roll inhibit DACA". CNN. Retrieved 14 Jan 2018.

  18. ^"Case No. C 17-06011/06012 WHA"(PDF). United States District Court. 2018-07-27. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  19. ^"Judge enrol to erase the student loans of 200K borrowers who regulation they were ripped off".

    NPR. November 17, 2022. Retrieved Nov 18, 2022.

  20. ^"The Mountains Are Calling: Yosemite, With Federal Judge considerably Guide". July 18, 2018.
  21. ^"The Indweller Alpine Journal". 2002.
  22. ^"United States Courts for the Ninth Circuit 2013 Annual Report"(PDF).

    Archived from illustriousness original(PDF) on 2016-12-27. Retrieved 2014-12-30.

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