Edmund Sargus
| Edmund Sargus | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio | |
| Title: | Judge |
| Position: | Seat #5 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 8/1/1996 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Carl Rubin |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1953 |
| Home State: | Wheeling, WV |
| Bachelors: | Brown U., A.B., 1975 |
| Law School: | Case Western Reserve U. School of Law, J.D., 1978 |
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Edmund A. Sargus, Jr. is an Article III federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. He joined the court in 1996 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.
Early life and education
Sargus is a graduate of Brown University, having received his Bachelor's Degree in 1975. He later attended the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland with his Juris Doctor degree in 1978.
Professional career
From 1978 to 1993, Sargus was a private practice attorney in Bellaire and St. Clairesville, OH and served as Special Counsel for the Attorney General of Ohio. Sargus was an elected Member of the City Council of St. Clairesville, OH 1988-1991 before being appointed by President Bill Clinton as US Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio in 1993 and served in that position until his judicial appointment in 1996. [1]
Judicial career
Southern District of Ohio
On the recommendation of Senator John Glenn, Sargus was nominated by President Bill Clinton on December 22, 1995 to his current position on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, which was being vacated by Carl Rubin. Sargus was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 22, 1996 and received commission on August 1, 1996. [1]
Notable cases
The notable case section on this page needs to be reformatted.
Ohio homeless voters consent decree
In 2006 the Ohio Legislature enacted a law specifying voter residence guidelines. Section 3503.02(I) of the law reads:
If a person does not have a fixed place of habitation, but has a shelter or other location at which the person has been a consistent or regular inhabitant and to which the person has the intention of returning, that shelter or other location shall be deemed the person’s residence for the purpose of registering to vote.[2]
A consent decree signed by Judge Sargus on October 27, 2008 reinforced that residence locations other than buildings shall be deemed an acceptable address. A further clarification was issued on October 29, 2008 pointing out that legislative statue 3503.02(I) is the only standard, either legislative or judicial, regulating voting by the homeless in the states of Ohio. [3] Nevertheless, media reports indicated that Judge Sargus issued a ruling regulating what types of address the homeless may use. [4]
Campaign Finance Statute Ruled Unconstitutional
On August 26, 2009, United States District Court Judge Edmund A. Sargus, Jr., issued a permanent injunction enjoining the Ohio Secretary of State and the Ohio Elections Commission “from enforcing subsections (C), (D), (E), and (F) of Ohio Revised Code Section 3517.103 against any present or future candidate for statewide office.” The Court’s order held that those sections of the law were “indistinguishable from the federal statute struck down by the [United States] Supreme Court in Davis [v. Fed. Election Commission, 128 S.Ct. 2759 (2008)]” and were therefore unconstitutional.
This section of the statute deals with contributions to a campaign committee of a statewide or general assembly candidate from the candidate or family members and is commonly referred to as the “Personal Funds Statute”.[5]
See also
External links
- Judge Sargus's Homepage (includes noteworthy rulings)
- Effect of permanent federal injunction in O'Brien v. Brunner and enforcement of R.C. 3517. 103
- Edmund Sargus's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center
References
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Carl Rubin |
Southern District of Ohio 1996–Current Seat #5 |
Succeeded by: NA |
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| 1993 |
Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson | ||
| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
