William H. Pauley III

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William H. Pauley III (* 1952 in Glen Cove , New York ) is an American lawyer who has served as a federal judge at the federal district court for the southern district of New York State since 1998 .

Career

Born in Glen Cove, Pauley received a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1974 and a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law in 1977 . From 1977 to 1978 he worked in the legal training ( law clerk ) at the Office of the Nassau County Attorney in New York. In 1978 he was Deputy county attorney there. From 1978 to 1998 he had his own law firm in New York City and since 1984 served as assistant legal advisor to the opposition leader in the New York State Assembly .

Pauley is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York . He was nominated by President Bill Clinton for the vacant seat of Peter K. Leisure on May 21, 1998. He was ratified by the Senate on October 21 .

In 2009, Pauley ruled in the Ben-Ami Kadish case that jail time for such an old man would not serve its purpose and instead fined him $ 50,000. Kadish pleaded guilty in December 2008 of handing over classified military documents to an Israeli agent in the 1980s. He also gained notoriety when he ruled on December 27, 2013 that the NSA's massive collection of connection data for incoming and outgoing calls to the USA is constitutional. He justified his decision by stating that they only serve the purpose of combating terrorism.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benjamin Weiser: " Man, 85, Avoids Jail Time for Giving Military Secrets ". In: The New York Times, May 29, 2009, last accessed December 31, 2013.
  2. ^ Ole Reissmann: " Secret Service: US Court Allow NSA to Collect Telephone Data ". In: Der Spiegel, December 27, 2013, last accessed on December 31, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Pauley, William H. III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American federal judge
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Glen Cove , New York