Jed S. Rakoff

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Jed S. Rakoff (born 1943) is a noteworthy United States District Court Judge.[1]

Education

Rakoff attended Swarthmore College (BA 1964), Oxford (M. Phil 1966), Harvard (J.D. 1969).[1]

Career

Rakoff was in private practice from 1970 to 1972.[1] He was an assistant U.S. attorney from 1973 to 1980. He returned to private practice in 1980 before being appointed to the bench in 1995.

Recent notable cases

Worldcomm

On July 7 2003 Rakoff approved a Securities and Exchange Commission judgement against telecoummunication firm Worldcom.[2]

Impath

Rakoff sentenced Anuradha D. Saad, former CEO of Impath, for fraud.[3]

Associated Press v. DoD

The Associated Press filed a request to force the US Department of Defense to reveal the identities of the Guantanamo Bay detainees.[4][5] Rakoff's January 24 2006 ruling obliged the DoD to officially make the detainees identities public. Rakoff's ruling resulted in the release of over 70 large portable document format files, containing over 600 transcripts from captives Combatant Status Review Tibunals and Administrative Review Board hearings.[6][7]

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