biography
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Judge, born in Wichita, Kansas, USA. A graduate of Brooklyn College (1943), he served in the navy before receiving a law degree from Columbia University (1948). He achieved a reputation as a distinguished legal scholar while a member of Columbia's faculty (1952–67). Appointed a federal judge for the Eastern District of New York (1967), he became known for his liberal, humanitarian rulings, and issued landmark decisions in several civil-rights cases. In 1985 he oversaw a multimillion-dollar settlement of Vietnam veterans' health claims growing out of exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange. |
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