Jan Dubois
| Jan Dubois | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #3 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 07/27/1988 - 04/14/2002 |
| Senior: | 04/15/2002 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Clifford Green |
| Succeeded by: | James Gardner |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1931 |
| Home State: | Philadelphia, PA |
| Bachelors: | U. of Pennsylvania, B.S., 1952 |
| Law School: | Yale Law , LL.B., 1957 |
| Military service: | U.S. Army 1952 - 1954 |
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Jan Dubois is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He joined the court in 1988 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan.
Early life and education
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dubois graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with his Bachelor's Degree in 1952 and later from Yale Law School with a law degree in 1957. Dubois served in the United States Army from 1952 to 1954.[1]
Professional career
DuBois began his career as a law clerk for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division in 1956 and for Federal Appeals Judge Harry Kalodner in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals from 1957 to 1958. DuBois served as a private practice attorney in Pennsylvania from 1958 to 1988.[1]
Judicial career
District of Pennsylvania
On the recommendation of Pennsylvania U.S. Senators John Heinz III and Arlen Specter, DuBois was nominated to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by President Ronald Reagan on May 10, 1988 to a seat vacated by Clifford Green. Dubois was confirmed by the US Senate on July 26, 1988 on a Senate vote and received commission on July 27, 1988.[2]
Notable cases
The notable case section on this page needs to be reformatted.
School laptop spying
Judge DuBois on Feburary 22, 2010, issued an order to the Lower Merion School District to stop using the cameras on school-issued MacBook computers to spy on students.
This came after Michael and Holly Robbins, the parents of Blake Robbins, sued the school district over a principal used the laptop camera to claim that the student committed improper behavior at his home.
As part of the order, attorneys for the school district were ordered to preserve all evidence used in the case.[3]
On April 5, 2010, Judge Dubois denied an attempt to block Carol Cafiero, the Technology Coordinator of the Lower Merion School District from facing a subpoena in order to testify in the trial. Attorneys for Cafiero insisted that she was trying to invoke her Fifth Amendment rights to not testify, but the judge differed in the ruling. The judge found no evidence Cafiero mentioned concerns of self-incrimination and said that she may have information about spying on the student's laptops that could determine the outcome of the trial.[4]
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Clifford Green |
Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1988–2002 Seat #3 |
Succeeded by: James Gardner |
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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 | ||
