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    He was a senior judge, no vacancy left behind. So no need to sound ghoulish

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    That's what I get for skimming the article.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    CNMI's first federal judge dies at 96

    SAIPAN — Alfred Laureta, the first federal judge for the District Court in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, died peacefully at his home in Hawaii on Nov. 16. He was 96.

    “His children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were at his bedside. He lived a very full and rewarding life,” San Francisco appellate attorney David Collins told the Marianas Variety in an email. Collins was a clerk for Judge Laureta in the CNMI from 1981 to 1983.

    According to The Garden Islands, a newspaper in Kauai, Hawaii, Laureta was born on May 21, 1924 “at Banana Camp in Ewa, Oahu, the only son of Filipino immigrants who came to Hawaii so his father could work as a laborer on the plantation. His parents’ relative lack of formal education did not stop Laureta from excelling scholastically, and from an early age those around him took notice.”

    After finishing high school he “worked his way through college at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, paying for tuition with a summer job in a pineapple cannery.” He graduated from the University of Hawaii with a degree in education in 1947 and obtained his law degree from Fordham University in New York in 1953.

    In June 1978, Laureta was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first federal judge of Filipino ancestry in U.S. history. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to serve as the first judge of the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

    Laureta served as a federal judge in the CNMI from 1978 to 1988 and was succeeded by Judge Alex Munson, who served until 2010. The current federal judge is Ramona V. Manglona, whose 10-year term will expire in July 2021 unless she is reappointed by the U.S. president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

    https://www.postguam.com/news/cnmi/c...400ba3d43.html

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    Carter outlives another one of his judges...
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    US District Judge Dee Benson dies months after brain cancer diagnosis

    SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. District Judge Dee Benson died Monday at age 72, nearly eight months after being diagnosed with Stage 4 brain cancer, the Deseret News reported.

    Benson, a Brigham Young University graduate, had served as a federal judge since his appointment by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. He also previously served as the U.S. Attorney for Utah and as chief of staff for Sen. Orrin Hatch. Benson ruled on a number of cases and was described by peers as an impartial judge during his tenure.

    "These days you hear about so-called Democratic or Republican judges," longtime friend Paul Warner, the chief magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court in Utah, told the Deseret News. "The media is quick to report a judge was appointed by Obama or Trump, indicating that's what swayed their rulings. Dee loved the law, and he was enormously talented — clearly the quickest legal study I've seen in the 45 years I've been in law. And because he loved the law and knew it, he let the law dictate the outcome."

    In a statement Monday, Hatch mourned the loss of Benson who he described as an "exemplary jurist, a sharp legal mind, and above all, a cherished friend."

    "Dee's heart was as big as his intellect, and it's for his trademark kindness and humility that I will remember him most," Hatch said of his colleague and friend. "He had a tremendous legal career, but most importantly, he had a rich and meaningful family life and was always there for his loved ones. My prayers are with the Benson family at this difficult time."

    Current U.S. Attorney for Utah John W. Huber said it's "difficult to imagine Utah's federal bench and bar without Judge Dee Benson's presence and positive influence."

    A portrait of the former U.S. Attorney for Utah hangs outside Huber's office, he said in a statement offering condolences to Benson's family.

    "As a judge, practitioners knew they would get a fair shake and thoughtful consideration from Judge Benson," he continued. "In an age of growing incivility, Judge Benson served as a shining example of professionalism, kindness and courtesy."

    Benson's identical twin brother Lee Benson, longtime columnist for the Deseret News, said his brother was a hard worker — even after his brain cancer diagnosis. About one month after a biopsy left him partially paralyzed and bedridden, Dee Benson was back to work in his downtown Salt Lake City office.

    "It was his life," Lee Benson told the Deseret News. "The court and the law clerks were as much family to him as, well, family."

    "He was my best friend and my confidant and my best critic," Lee Benson said of his late brother.

    https://www.ksl.com/article/50058437...ncer-diagnosis

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    Thomas Reavley, federal judge and friend of LBJ, dies at 99 in Houston

    Thomas Morrow Reavley, the oldest circuit judge on the federal bench and a one-time aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 99.

    The chief judge of the circuit announced his death at a Zoom hearing Tuesday morning. His wife, fellow 5th Circuit Judge Carolyn Dineen King, who he met when the pair were confirmed during the Carter Administration, was present, according to Ryan K. Patrick, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas.

    King’s office staff confirmed that Reavley died this morning. He had been in delicate health for more than a year.

    Reavley served from 1979 until his death on the Court of Appeals for the 5th U.S. Circuit. He was raised in East Texas in the 1930s and his resume spanned the gamut of public service, beginning with his stint in the U.S. Navy serving in the Pacific theater during World War II. He was a state Supreme Court justice, Secretary of State, an Austin district judge, a Dallas prosecutor and the Nacodoches County Attorney.

    He was passionate from an early age about challenging inequity. At 14, he’d given a sermon to his Nacogdoches congregation about racial injustice; later, as a Democratic gubernatorial staffer, he’d advocated for equal access to schools and as a judge ruled against housing discrimination..

    “During his 99 years, Judge Reavley earned the love, respect, and affection of those who had the privilege of knowing him,” said Chief U.S. Judge Lee H. Rosenthal in a message Tuesday. “He shared himself with us, teaching gently, by example, lessons in how to read, how to write, and how to think, better, deeper, and more clearly.”

    https://www.lmtonline.com/news/houst...J-15766184.php

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    South Carolina federal Judge G. Ross Anderson has died

    U.S. District Judge G. Ross Anderson Jr., one of South Carolina's most recognized and honored federal judges, has died.

    Anderson died Tuesday morning at a nursing home in the region, according to Anderson County Clerk of Court Richard Shirley. He was 91.

    Anderson was born to an Equinox mill home in the South Carolina city that shares his name, but his father forbade him from working at the mills. So the boy who would become a federal judge did a variety of odd jobs like shingling roofs and delivering the newspaper that is now the Anderson Independent Mail.

    He always knew that furthering his education would be crucial to him, the judge said in a 2016 interview.

    "Education is the greatest step toward a great future,” he said from his room at Clemson Downs, a retirement community and assisted-living and skilled-nursing facility.

    He attended Southeastern University and George Washington University and also served in the Air Force in the early 1950s. He earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1954.

    Anderson came from tough roots, no sliver spoons or family connections and worked for every inch of what he achieved, said Trey Gowdy, a former U.S. Congress member, former circuit solicitor and former clerk for Anderson.

    Anderson had a private law practice in the city of Anderson beginning in 1954 and lasting until he made it to the federal bench decades later.

    His skills as a trial attorney are still revered, said Gowdy. The former congressman’s daughter, who has the judge’s last name as a middle name, is a law student at the University of South Carolina where mock trials happen in a courtroom named for the judge.

    During the course of his career, Anderson was a legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Olin Johnston of South Carolina in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the mid-1950s, Anderson served in the state House of Representatives for one term and was fond of telling people, “I left by popular request.”

    A key thorn for people was Anderson’s jail expansion plans, still a thorn today.

    Anderson’s work spanned decades both in and out of court.

    He was one of the early fingerprint analysts for the FBI. He helped bring air conditioning in Upstate courts and jails. He helped design Anderson County’s water system in the 1960s and brought cable television to the region in 1970. He was nominated to the federal bench in 1980.

    As he reached the heights of the law, Anderson never strayed from the city he loved.

    He would draw on his mill-hill years, seeing smoke belching from the textile mills that defined his childhood, as he ruled on numerous environmental cases.

    His courtroom had a reputation for being tough ground, said Justice John Cannon Few, a South Carolina Supreme Court member who was born in Anderson and clerked for the judge in the late 1980s.

    Anderson was not harsh or uncaring, he was demanding of attorneys because he believed they carried a duty to help people and anything less than a strong effort was not acceptable, Few said.

    Anderson was beloved by a group of attorneys who had the distinction of serving as his law clerks. He taught them a mock-Latin phrase which he said, roughly translated, was "never let the bastards get you down."

    Dozens of court officials have worked with him over the years him over the years.

    "He has been in failing health for the last few years, so in that regard, we knew the time would come," said Shirley, the Anderson County clerk and former Anderson mayor. "But wow, is this the end of an era."

    Anderson said he had passed up a chance to rise to the federal judiciary in 1978 because he didn’t want the pay cut to $54,000 a year.

    His consolation was to be on a panel that helped select three such judges and he eventually agreed to the nomination.

    President Jimmy Carter nominated Anderson in April 1980 to a seat vacated by James Robert Martin, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in May. Anderson was recommended by former U.S. Sen. Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat.

    Almost immediately after his nomination was finished, Anderson let out a deep breath and gathered his friends at his basement bar, where they could smoke cigars, including the forbidden Cubans.

    Cigars, a part of his life for years, were such an accessory that his official court portrait nearly included him holding one, according to a story in the Independent Mail.

    Bruce Byrholdt, an Anderson attorney who clerked for the judge and saw him as a father figure, said it is a loss for the city.

    ”He was a giant in the law, an asset to the nation, to our state but he always put Anderson (the city) first,” Byrholdt said.

    And in return, the city will bear his marks for generations to come.

    A federal courthouse built in the 1930s was named in 2002 for Anderson, a rarity for a living judge.

    Gowdy said he was in the kitchen with Anderson and his wife when U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond called to offer the judge a coveted spot on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, one rung down from the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Anderson ultimately rejected the offer, but not easily because his father, who was still alive, urged him to go forward.

    Anderson declined because he loved Anderson, the job would have meant spending a good deal of time in Virginia, and would be a more isolated existence than he had hearing the district court legal cases, Gowdy said.

    He was named a senior judge in 2009 and reduced his workload in his final years on the bench, but continued to work regularly in the courthouse that bore his name until his health no longer allowed it.

    A student center at Anderson University bears his name, an honor that was unveiled in a ceremony in 2015.

    He said the building was an honor because it stood for education, which helped propel him in life.

    One of his last public events was the groundbreaking for the student center.

    Anderson received a lifetime achievement award from the South Carolina Association for Justice, the state's trial lawyers group.

    “His contributions, you can’t compare to anyone else,” Doug Harris, an affiliate of the group, said in a previous interview. “He’s been a true friend of the plaintiff’s bar.”

    Anderson also has received the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina's highest civilian honor, which recognizes lifetime achievement and service.

    U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham tweeted Tuesday that Anderson's family and friends are in his prayers.

    "Judge Anderson was a distinguished lawyer and served honorably and effectively on the federal bench for decades," Graham said. "He loved the law and truly was a force of nature."

    https://www.greenvilleonline.com/sto...ed/6476571002/

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    Three in 48 hours.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Harold DeMoss also needs to be on this list.

    https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/st...?pid=196202942
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    Paywall. Can't get more than this.

    Ralph K. Winter, Former 2nd Circuit Judge, Yale Law Professor, Dies at 85

    Former Judge Ralph K. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a respected Yale Law School professor who served for decades on the Second Circuit, has died following a long illness, Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston announced late Tuesday. He was 85.

    https://www.law.com/newyorklawjourna...or-dies-at-85/

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