Royce C. Lamberth

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Royce C. Lamberth (2009)

Royce C. Lamberth (born July 16, 1943 in San Antonio , Texas ) is a former senior federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia . He became known for his critical statements. He described parts of the US federal government as dinosaurs and incompetent. He also became known because of an important court case, the Cobell v. Salazar was withdrawn on the grounds that he had developed a hatred of the Ministry of the Interior and sided with the Indians. He would wage war against the Bureau of Indian Affairs .

Life

Lamberth studied law at the University of Texas at Austin . From 1968 to 1974 he served as a judge in the US Army in the Judge Advocate General's Corps , part of which in Vietnam . After serving in the army, he became a prosecutor for the federal government in Washington, DC. In 1978, he was appointed chief of the civil affairs prosecutor's office. On July 19, 1987, he was proposed by President Ronald Reagan as a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia . On November 13, 1987, the US Senate confirmed his nomination. On July 15, 2013, he resigned from his office as a judge in protest.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Washington Post He's thrown DC corrections officials in jail, held Cabinet secretaries in contempt and threatened to cover a defendant's mouth with duct tape. He called a federal agency a dinosaur and city officials bullheaded.
  2. ↑ Washington Post A federal appeals court took the rare step of removing US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth from a long-standing legal battle involving billions in Native American oil and gas royalties, saying the judge appears to be biased against the Interior Department.
  3. ^ Judge Lamberth bifurcated the case along those lines. After a trial on Phase One - reform of the system - Judge Lamberth ruled on December 21, 1999 that the secretaries of Interior and Treasury had breached their trust obligations to the Indians.
  4. ^ Judge Lamberth orders Secretary Norton and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs McCaleb to stand trial for contempt.
  5. ^ Washington Post Royce Lamberth steps down from court post; outspoken on government incompetence
personal data
SURNAME Lamberth, Royce C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American federal judge
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio , Texas