Michael J. Davis

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Judge Michael J. Davis (born 1947, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. President Bill Clinton nominated Davis on November 19, 1993, to a seat vacated by Harry H. MacLaughlin. Judge Davis was confirmed by the Senate on March 25, 1994, and received commission on March 28, 1994.

In May 1999, Chief Justice William Rehnquist appointed Davis to serve as a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. His term on this court expired on May 18, 2006.

Davis received his B.A. from Macalester College in 1969; he obtained his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1972.

On Oct. 2-4, 2007, Davis presided over the case of Capitol v. Jammie Thomas. The issue in the case was use of Kazaa for copyright infringement. The recording companies focused on 24 recordings of over 1,700 that they believed Thomas was infringing. The jury in the case awarded the recording companies $9,250 per song they found was willfully infringed. The total amount of the verdict was $222,000.[1]

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• Federal Judicial Profile. Website of the Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved on February 9, 2006.
• MDL 1431 Baycol Product Liability Litigation Judge Michael J. Davis. Website of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Retrieved on February 9, 2006.