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The Honorable Peter B. Scuderi, 80 (1928 - 2008)
PHILADELPHIA—U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter B. Scuderi, who served in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for more than three decades, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 80. Scuderi was first appointed to the federal bench in 1974. He was raised in South Philadelphia by immigrant parents with little formal education, but worked his way through Temple University and Duke Law School,...
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John Hermon, 79 (1928 - 2008)
DUBLIN, Ireland - Sir John "Jack" Hermon, a strong-willed Ulsterman who commanded Northern Ireland's police force through many of its worst years of conflict with the IRA, has died, his family and the British government announced Friday. Hermon, 79, had been suffering for several years from Alzheimer's disease. He died Thursday in a nursing home in the Belfast suburb of Bangor. He joined...
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Robert L. Krechevsky (2008)
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - Robert L. Krechevsky, a federal bankruptcy judge who oversaw a case involving the collapse of real estate giant Colonial Realty, has died. He was 86. Krechevsky, who retired in August, died Thursday at his home in West Hartford, according to a newspaper obituary prepared by his family. He served for 30 years in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Connecticut. One of his most...
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Frederick Baron, 61 (1947 - 2008)
DALLAS - Frederick Baron, a wealthy Texas trial lawyer and prominent Democratic fundraiser linked to the John Edwards mistress scandal, died Thursday. He was 61. Baron died following complications from cancer, said Harrison Hickman, a family spokesman. Baron had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, or bone marrow cancer. His death comes just two weeks after he obtained an experimental...
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Charles Dubin, 87 (1921 - 2008)
TORONTO - Charles Dubin, a former top Canadian judge who was best known for heading an inquiry into drug use in amateur sport, died Monday. He was 87. The former chief justice of Ontario died of pneumonia, said his longtime friend, Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Robert Armstrong. Dubin was appointed to the province's top court in 1973 and was tapped to head several inquiries, most...
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Jack Tenner (2008)
LOS ANGELES - Jack Tenner, a former Los Angeles Superior Court judge who was involved in the city's civil rights struggles over the past 60 years, has died. He was 88. Tenner died Monday at...
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Hal Kant, 77 (1931 - 2008)
The following content supplied by The Wall Street Journal By Stephen Miller He was perhaps the only lawyer in America whose stationery was inscribed "Legally Dead." Hal Kant, the longtime...
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Howard G. Munson (2008)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Former U.S. District Judge Howard Munson, who presided over trials involving tax protesters and an early Internet hacking case, died Sunday. He was 84. Munson had served on the...
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J. L. Chestnut, Jr. (2008)
SELMA, Ala. -- J.L. Chestnut Jr., the first black lawyer in Selma and a prominent attorney in civil rights cases across a half century, has died at age 77. Chestnut's law partner, state Sen....
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Philadelphia Police Shootings (2008)
PHILADELPHIA — A city police officer pursuing an armed suspect Tuesday afternoon was fatally shot, the fourth Philadelphia officer to die in the line of duty in the last year, authorities said....
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Barefoot Sanders, 83 (1925 - 2008)
DALLAS -- Barefoot Sanders, a U.S. district judge who presided over more than two decades of litigation to desegregate Dallas schools, has died. He was 83. Sanders, born Harold Barefoot...
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George B. Tellevik, 74 (1933 - 2008)
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- George B. Tellevik, who rose through the ranks of the Washington State Patrol to serve as chief in 1985-1993 and emphasized service and professionalism, has died. He was 74. ...
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John Webb, 82 (1926 - 2008)
WILSON, N.C. - Former state Supreme Court Justice John Webb, known as "the smiling cobra" for handing out tough sentences with a smile, died Thursday. He was 82. Webb, who had been fighting...
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Thomas B. Miller (2008)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Thomas B. Miller, a former West Virginia state Supreme Court Justice, died Tuesday. He was 79. Miller died at his Wheeling home, according to a statement from Kepner Funeral...
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William M. Goldstein, 72 (1935 - 2008)
PHILADELPHIA - William M. Goldstein, a prominent tax lawyer who argued an appeal of the definition of income in 1990 that is still cited in textbooks, has died. He was 72. Goldstein died...
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Robert Montgomery, Jr. (2008)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Robert Montgomery Jr., a Palm Beach attorney who represented the state of Florida in a landmark lawsuit against tobacco companies, has died. He was 78. Montgomery...
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David Niehaus, 64 (1944 - 2008)
HAMILTON, Ohio - A judge who made headlines for sending a father to jail over his daughter's failure to get her GED died Thursday. He was 64. Butler County Juvenile Court Judge David Niehaus...
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Richard Egbert (2008)
Boston - Richard Egbert, the prominent New England criminal defense lawyer whose famous clients included Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas Finneran and Providence Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci,...
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Paul Bentley (2008)
DALLAS - Dallas police Detective Paul Bentley, who helped arrest presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theater, had a ready retort for those who didn't accept the official story...
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Arthur Gamble, Jr., 88 (1920 - 2008)
GREENVILLE, Ala. - Arthur Gamble Jr., a former district attorney and circuit judge who prosecuted a Klansman in the 1965 murder of a civil rights worker, died Thursday. He was 88. Gamble died...
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Ruth Greenglass, 83 (1924 - 2008)
NEW YORK -- Ruth Greenglass, whose testimony in the sensational Rosenberg spy trial helped send her sister-in-law Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair, has died. She was 84. Greenglass had...
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Robert F. Simone (2007)
Robert F. Simone, one of the city's top defense attorneys for 40 years, has died. He was 73. Simone, who defended clients from the glamorous to the infamous, including crime boss Nicodemo "Little...
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Alan V. Lowenstein, 93 (1913 - 2007)
Alan V. Lowenstein, one of the founders of law firm Lowenstein Sandler and a leader of Newark's charter reform movement, died Tuesday. He was 93. Lowenstein had been hospitalized several weeks...
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Jane Bolin, 98 (1908 - 2007)
Jane Bolin, the nation's first black female judge and the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, has died. She was 98. Bolin's death was confirmed by Matthew Kovary, spokesman for...
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Stephen Rackow Kaye (2006)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Stephen Rackow Kaye, who wrote the definitive work on commercial litigation in New York, forced the Islamic Republic of Iran to pay millions of dollars in a property rights...
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David P. Conn, 56 (1950 - 2006)
David P. Conn, known as an aggressive but fair deputy district attorney who won the high-profile Menendez brothers' case in 1996, has died. He was 56. Conn died Tuesday, about five months after...
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Milton Henry (2006)
The Rev. Milton Henry, a civil rights lawyer and black separatist who sought to create a provisional government of former slave states, has died of natural causes. He was 87. He died at home...
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Johnnie Cochran, 67 (1937 - 2005)
The call came several times from the stage: Will all the celebrity clients Johnnie Cochran Jr. represented please rise? O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and others in the...
