Jon O. Newman is an United States federal judge

United States federal judge

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. He has served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

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 since 1979.

Education and legal training

Newman earned his A.B. from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1953 and his law degree from Yale Law School

Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

 in 1956. After Yale, he clerked for Judge George T. Washington

George Thomas Washington

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 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then clerked for U.S. Chief Justice

Chief Justice

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 Earl Warren

Earl Warren

Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...

 from 1957 to 1958.

He was in private practice from 1958 to 1960 in Hartford, Connecticut

Connecticut

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 and served as a graduate instructor at Trinity College . He also served as a special counsel to the governor of Connecticut in 1960. He was an executive assistant to the United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1961 to 1962 and then joined the staff of U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff as Administrative Assistant from 1963 to 1964. He was the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut from 1964 to 1969 when Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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 took office. He entered private practice in Hartford again until 1971 when he was nominated to a federal district judgeship.

Federal judicial service

Newman was nominated by Richard M. Nixon on December 2, 1971, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut

United States District Court for the District of Connecticut

The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Connecticut. The court has offices in Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven. Appeals from the court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...

 vacated by William H. Timbers

William H. Timbers

William Homer Timbers was a longtime federal judge in the United States.Timbers graduated from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. He spent many years in private practice in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut, including several years as a member of the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate & Timbers...

. He was confirmed by the United States Senate

United States Senate

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 on December 11, 1971, and received his commission on December 15, 1971. Newman's best-known opinion as a District Judge was a concurring opinion in Abele v. Markle, decided by a three-judge court in 1972, which struck down Connecticut's abortion

Abortion

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 statute and was seen as a precursor to the U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court of the United States

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 decision in Roe v. Wade

Roe v. Wade

Roe v. Wade, , was a controversial landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. The Court decided that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion,...

the following year.

Newman's service on the District Court was terminated on June 25, 1979, when Newman was nominated by Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

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 on April 30, 1979, to a newly created seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Newman was confirmed by the Senate on June 19, 1979, and received his commission on June 21, 1979. He served as Chief Judge

Chief judge

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 from 1993 to 1997 and assumed senior status

Senior status

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 on July 1, 1997.

Noteworthy decisions

• Abele v. Markle, 369 F. Supp. 807 (D. Conn. 1972).
• Bennett v. Mukasey - A lawyer can't take a client's money and then fail to proceed with his case because the client is not paying the bill. The Court sent immigration lawyer to the Grievance Panel for possible violation of ethical rules after the lawyer did not process the appeal of his client because of lack of payment.
• Rivera v. LaPorte, 896 F.2d 691 (2d Cir. 1990).
• Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp.
  Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp.
  Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp. is an influential 1998 Second Circuit fair use case.-Case background:Annie Leibovitz is a professional portrait photographer who had published a photograph of celebrity Demi Moore while seven months pregnant...
  
  , 137 F.3d 109 (2nd Cir. 1998).

Kadic v. Karadzic, 70 F.3d 232 (2d Cir. 1996).
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