Stephen Reinhardt

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Stephen Roy Reinhardt
Stephen Reinhardt
Incumbent
Assumed office 
1980
Nominated by Jimmy Carter
Preceded by (seat established)
Born March 27, 1931 (1931-03-27) (age 77)
New York, NY

Stephen Roy Reinhardt (born March 27, 1931 in New York, New York) is a circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in Los Angeles, California. He was appointed in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter.

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[edit] Education and practice

Reinhardt graduated from University High School in Los Angeles. He enrolled in Pomona College and graduated three years later with an A.B. (Government) in 1951. In 1954, he received an LL.B. from Yale Law School.

After law school, Reinhardt worked at the legal counsel’s office in Washington, D.C. for the United States Air Force as a lieutenant. Two years later, he clerked for district judge Luther Youngdahl, a former governor of Minnesota, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He then entered private practice, working for the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers from 1958 until 1959 practicing entertainment law. After two years at O’Melveny & Myers, he began working at a small firm in Los Angeles that became Fogel, Julber, Reinhardt, Rothschild & Feldman specializing in labor law.

Reinhardt served as a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, California Advisory Committee from 1962 to 1974 and was its Vice Chairman from 1969 to 1974. He also served as member of the Democratic National Committee and as an unpaid advisor to former Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley and former California governor Jerry Brown. In 1975 he was appointed to the Los Angeles Police Commission, which he chaired from 1978 until his judicial confirmation in 1980.

Reinhardt continued his public service as Secretary of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Amateur Athletic Foundation.

Reinhardt administered the oath of office to current Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, on July 1, 2005.[1]

[edit] Judicial career

Reinhardt, known as one of the most liberal judges on the courts of appeals, is also one of the most-reversed judges before the Supreme Court.[2] Opinions he wrote for the Ninth Circuit were reversed in, for example:

Safeco Insurance Co. of America v. Burr, 127 S.Ct. 2201 (2007); Gonzales v. Carhart, 127 S.Ct. 1610 (2007); Ayers v. Belmontes, 127 S.Ct. 469 (2006); Garcetti v. Ceballos, 126 S.Ct. 1951 (2006); Texaco Inc. v. Dagher, 547 U.S. 1 (2006); Pliler v. Ford, 542 U.S. 225 (2002); Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Echazabal, 536 U.S. 73 (2002); United States v. Arvizu, 534 U.S. 266 (2002); Major League Baseball Players Ass'n v. Garvey, 532 U.S. 504 (2001); Albertson's, Inc. v. Kirkingburg, 527 U.S. 555 (1999); Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702 (1997); Lambert v. Wicklund, 520 U.S. 292 (1997); United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456 (1997); I.N.S. v. Abudu, 485 U.S. 94 (1988); Heckler v. Lopez, 463 U.S. 1328 (1983) (per Rehnquist, Circuit Justice).

The following are some of his most notable judicial opinions:

Ma v. Reno (9th Cir 2000) 208 F.3d 815
It was ruled that an alien cannot be held indefinitely in detention in the absence of a repatriation agreement with his or her country of origin.
Compassion in Dying v. Washington (9th Cir 1996) 79 F.3d 790 (en banc)
It was ruled that a statute prohibiting doctors from prescribing life-ending medication for the terminally ill violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Yniguez v. Arizonans for Official English (9th Cir 1991) 939 F.2d 727; opinion adopted en banc (9th Cir 1995) 69 F.3d 920
It was ruled that the English-only provision in the Arizona constitution was overly broad and violated the First Amendment right of free speech. This decision was vacated by the Supreme Court as moot because plaintiff Yniguez had voluntarily left the employment of the State of Arizona the day after the appeal was filed.
Cardoza-Fonseca v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1985) 767 F.2d 1448
It was ruled that the INS had conflated two different routes for seeking asylum and had improperly rejected an application made under one route based on the requirements of the second. This decision was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Coleman v. Risley (9th Cir 1988) 839 F.2d 434, 465
Standard to obtain asylum.
Sanders v. Ratelle (9th Cir 1994) 21 F.3d 1446, 1455 (Part II)
It was ruled that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel can be infringed if the counsel has a conflict of interest, even if the defendant has issued a waiver of conflict of interest.
Silveira v. Lockyer (9th Cir. 2002) 312 F.3d 1052, 1087
It was ruled that the right to bear arms is a collective right, not an individual right.

[edit] Personal life

Reinhardt's mother divorced his father and married movie director Gottfried Reinhardt—the son of director Max Reinhardt. Stephen Reinhardt is currently married to Ramona Ripston, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Southern California,[3] and has three children.

[edit] Awards

Reinhardt has received the following awards:

  • “1987 Appellate Judge of the Year” by the California Trial Lawyers Association.
  • “1993 St. Thomas More Medallion Award” by Loyola Law School.
  • “1993 Donald Wright Award” by the California Attorney for Criminal Justice.
  • “1995 Appellate Justice of the Year” by the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.
  • “1998 Champion of Justice: Legal Award” by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
  • “2004 Award for Judicial Excellence” by the Idaho Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
  • “2004 Meritorious Service Award” by the University of Oregon Law School.[4]

[edit] Law clerks

Judge Reinhardt hires four law clerks every year.

Term Clerk Law School Year of Graduation
1982–1983 Deval Patrick Harvard Law School 1982
1983–1984 Kevin R. Johnson Harvard Law School 1983
1986–1987 Marc S. Mayerson Harvard Law School 1986
1990-1991 Michael C. Dorf Harvard Law School 1990
1991-1992 Shaun P. Martin Harvard Law School 1991
Christopher N. Sipes Harvard Law School 1991
1992–1993 Thomas A. Saenz Yale Law School 1991
1993–1994 Samuel Bagenstos Harvard Law School 1993
1994–1995 David Barron Harvard Law School 1994
Heather Gerken University of Michigan Law School 1994
Elaine Horn University of Chicago Law School 1994
Daniel Tokaji Yale Law School 1994
1995–1996 Peter Eliasberg Harvard Law School 1994
Carl Goldfarb Yale Law School 1995
Kimberly West-Faulcon Yale Law School 1994
Hector Villagra Columbia Law School 1994
1996–1997 Kali Bracey Yale Law School 1996
1997-1998 Jeffrey L. Fisher University of Michigan Law School 1997
1998–1999 Michele Landis Dauber Northwestern Law School 1998
Benjamin I. Sachs Yale Law School 1998
Stacey M. Leyton Stanford Law School 1998
Deirdre Von Dornum Columbia Law School 1997
1999–2000 Ahilan T. Arulanantham Yale Law School 1999
Adam B. Cox University of Michigan Law School 1999
Ryan Goodman Yale Law School 1999
Robin Toone Yale Law School 1995
Anne Voigts Columbia Law School 1999
2000–2001 Adriaan Lanni Yale Law School 1999
2001-02 Eve Brenskike Michigan Law School 2001
Andrew J. Ehrlich Harvard Law School 2000
Maame Ewusi-Mensa Yale Law School 2001
Katie Tinto New York University School of Law 2001
2002–2003 Elizabeth E. Joh New York University School of Law 2000
Justin Levitt Harvard Law School 2002
David Gold Columbia Law School 2002
Claudia Wilner New York University School of Law 2002
2003–2004 Joshua Civin Yale Law School 2003
Laura Faer Columbia Law School 2003
2004–2005 Kate Andrias Yale Law School 2004
Travis LeBlanc Yale Law School 2003
Nicola Mrazek Stanford Law School 2004
Rick Su Harvard Law School 2004
2005–2006 Francesca Gessner Stanford Law School 2005
Seth Grossman Yale Law School 2005
Daniel Olmos Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley 2004
Lauren Sudeall Harvard Law School 2005
2006–2007 Greta Hansen Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley 2006
Dana Kaersvang University of Michigan Law School 2006
John Rappaport Harvard Law School 2006
Peter Romer-Friedman Columbia Law School 2006
2007–2008 Talia Inlender Yale Law School 2007
Brook Hopkins Harvard Law School 2007
Christine Monta Harvard Law School 2007
David Tannenbaum Yale Law School 2007
2008–2009 Mariko Hirose Stanford Law School 2008

[edit] References

  1. ^ Reinhardt to give Antonio the oath. LA Observed (2005-06-30). Retrieved on 2006-06-14.
  2. ^ Farnsworth, Ward (2006), “The Role of Law in Close Cases: Some Evidence From the Federal Courts of Appeals”, Boston University Law Review 86: 1083, 1090 
  3. ^ Ramona Ripston, Exectutive Director, ACLU of Southern California Appointed to the State Commission on Judicial Performance. ACLU of Southern California (1998-07-20). Retrieved on 2006-06-14.
  4. ^ Oregon Supreme Court Justice Will Address 2004 UO Law Commencement. University of Oregon (2004-05-12). Retrieved on 2006-06-14.
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