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| Frederick Motz | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the District of Maryland | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #10 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 07/12/1985 - 12/16/2010 |
| Chief: | 1991 - 2001 |
| Senior: | 12/17/2010 - Present |
| Preceded by: | 98 Stat. 333 |
| Succeeded by: | James Bredar |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1942 |
| Home State: | Baltimore, MD |
| Bachelors: | Wesleyan U., A.B., 1964 |
| Law School: | U. of Virginia Law, LL.B., 1967 |
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J. Frederick Motz is federal judge serving on senior status for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He joined the court in 1985 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan.
Early life and education
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Motz graduated from Wesleyan University with his Bachelor's Degree in 1964 and later from the University of Virginia School of Law with his Juris Doctor degree in 1967.[1]
Professional career
Motz was a law clerk for former federal appeals judge Harrison Winter for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1967 to 1968. In 1969, Motz became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in the U.S. Attorney's Office where he served until 1971. Motz entered private practice from 1971 to 1981 before being nominated by President Ronald Reagan to U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland from 1981 to 1985.[1]
Judicial career
District of Maryland
Motz was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland by President Ronald Reagan on April 23, 1985 to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333 which was approved by Congress. Motz was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 11, 1985 on a Senate vote and received commission on July 12, 1985. Motz served as the Chief Judge of the court from 1994 to 2001. He assumed senior status on the court on December 16, 2010. [1]
Notable cases
The notable case section on this page needs to be reformatted.
Land use case
On July 30, 2009, Judge Motz dismissed a lawsuit involving land sale decisions for Howard County spanning the previous fifteen years. The lawsuit was filed by a group of development activists who believe the county granted approval of land sales by a resolution - not a referendum. The judge dismissed the case on the grounds that state court was the more proper forum for the case over federal courts. [2]
Wells Fargo case
Judge Motz on January 7, 2010 dismissed a lawsuit between the City of Baltimore and Wells Fargo after Maryland's largest city claimed that they led minority homeowners into taking risky mortgages that resulted in foreclosures.
Baltimore was the fifth major city to file a lawsuit in federal court over the past two years claiming that their lending practices violated the federal Fair Housing Act.
In reaching the decision, the judge found there was not enough evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to prove that mortgage forclosures led to lost property tax revenue.[3]
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA-New Seat |
District of Maryland 1985–2010 Seat #10 |
Succeeded by: James Bredar |
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| 1981 |
Bartlett • Beam • Becker • Bork • Cacheris • Cardamone • Chapman • Coughenour • Cox • Crow • Cyr • Doumar • Eschbach • Forrester • Garwood • Gibson • Glasser • Hall • Hamilton • Head • Jones • Kiser • Krenzler • Lee • Magnuson • McLaughlin • Miner • Moore • Nowlin • O'Connor • Pierce • Posner • Potter • Russell • Ryan • Shabaz • Sprizzo • Stevens • Waters • Wilhoit • Wilkins • Winter | ||
| 1982 |
Acker • Acosta • Altimari • Bell • Bissell • Black • Bullock • Caldwell • Coffey • Contie • Coyle • Dowd • Fagg • Fong • Fox • Gadbois • Gibson • Ginsburg • Hart • Higginbotham • Hogan • Irving • Jackson • Jolly • Kanne • Kovachevich • Krupansky • Lynch • Mansmann • McNamara • Mencer • Mentz • Mihm • Moody • Nordberg • Paul • Pieras • Plunkett • Porfilio • Potter • Pratt • Rafeedie • Restani • Roberts • Scalia • Selya • Telesca • Wellford | ||
| 1983 |
Baldock • Barbour • Barry • Bowman • Carman • Carter • Curran • Davis • Dorsey • Feldman • Fish • Flaum • Gibbons • Hallanan • Harris • Hinojosa • Hull • Hupp • Katz • Keenan • Kelly • Kram • Laffitte • Limbaugh, Sr. • Limbaugh, Sr. • Milburn • Nesbitt • Nevas • O'Neill • Rymer • Sharp • Starr • Vinson • Vukasin • Wexler • Woods | ||
| 1984 |
Barker • Beezer • Biggers • Billings • Bissell • Boyle • Brewster • Browning • DiCarlo • Duhe • Garcia • George • Hall • Hargrove • Higgins • Hill • Holland • Ideman • Jarvis • Keller • Leavy • Lee • Legge • Leisure • Little • Livaudais • Longobardi • McKibben • Milburn • Newman • Norgle • Prado • Rea • Rosenblatt • Rovner • Scirica • Smith, Jr. • Sneeden • Stotler • Suhrheinrich • Torruella • Wiggins • Wilkinson | ||
| 1985 |
Alley • Altimari • Anderson • Aquilino • Archer • Arnold • Baldock • Batchelder • Battey • Broomfield • Brown • Brown • Brunetti • Buckley • Cobb • Conmy • Cowen • Davidson • Dimmick • Duff • Easterbrook • Edgar • Farnan • Fernandez • Fitzpatrick • Fuste • Greene • Gunn • Guy • Hall • Hilton • Holderman • Hughes • Johnson • Jones • Korman • Kozinski • La Plata • Leinenweber • Letts • Lovell • Ludwig • Maloney • Mansmann • Marcus • McDonald • Meredith • Miller • Mills • Miner • Motz • Nelson • Noonan • Porfilio • Revercomb • Rhoades • Ripple • Rodriguez • Rosenbaum • Roth • Ryan • Sam • Scott • Sentelle • Silberman • Sporkin • Stanton • Stapleton • Strand • Strom • Tacha • Tevrizian • Thompson • Todd • Tsoucalas • Walker • Walter • Weber • Williams • Wilson • Wingate • Wolf • Wollman • Young • Zloch | ||
| 1986 |
Anderson • Boggs • Bryan • Cedarbaum • Cholakis • Conway • Davies • Dearie • Dubina • Duggan • Edmondson • Fawsett • Fitzwater • Gex • Graham • Hackett • Hansen • Henderson • Hittner • Howard • Jensen • Kay • Kleinfeld • Kosik • Lagueux • Lechner • Magill • Mahoney • Manion • McAvoy • McQuade • Norris • O'Scannlain • Rehnquist • Ryskamp • Scalia • Selya • Simpson • Smalkin • Spencer • Stiehl • Wilkins • Williams • Woodlock • Zatkoff | ||
| 1987 |
Alesia • Beam • Bell • Conboy • Cowen • Cummings • Daronco • Doty • Dwyer • Ebel • Ellis • Gadola • Gawthrop • Greenberg • Harrington • Howard • Hoyt • Hutchinson • Kanne • Kelly • Larimer • Leavy • Lew • Marsh • Mayer • McKinney • Michel • Mukasey • Musgrave • Niemeyer • Parker • Phillips • Politan • Pro • Raggi • Reasoner • Reed • Scirica • Sentelle • Smith • Smith • Stadtmueller • Standish • Tinder • Torres • Trott • Turner • Van Antwerpen • Voorhees • Webb • Whipple • Wolin • Wolle • Wood • Zagel | ||
| 1988 |
Arcara • Babcock • Brorby • Butler • Cambridge • Camp • Conlon • Cox • Dubois • Duhe • Ezra • Forester • Friedman • Garza • Hutton • Jordan • Kennedy • Lake • Lamberth • Lifland • Lozano • Marovich • Nygaard • Patterson • Schell • Smith • Smith • Tilley • Waldman • Zilly | ||
