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| Richard Seeborg | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
| Title: | Judge |
| Position: | Seat #3 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Barack Obama |
| Active: | 1/4/2010 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Maxine Chesney |
| Past post: | Federal magistrate judge |
| Past term: | 2001 - 2009 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1956 |
| Home State: | Landstuhl, Germany |
| Bachelors: | Yale College, B.A., 1978 |
| Law School: | Columbia U. School of Law, J.D., 1981 |
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Richard Gus Seeborg is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He was nominated by President Obama.
Early life and education
Judge Seeborg earned his BA from Yale College in 1978 and his Juris Doctor degree in 1981 from the Columbia University School of Law. [1]
Professional career
After law school Judge Seeborg was a law clerk to John Pratt on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. [1] Prior to 2001, Seeborg served as an assistant U.S. attorney in San Jose and worked at the law firm Morrison & Foerster in Palo Alto and San Francisco. [2]
Judicial career
Seeborg served as a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 2001 to 2009. [3]
Northern District of California
Seeborg was nominated by President Obama for an Article III judgeship on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for the seat vacated by Maxine Chesney. [1][2] The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved his nomination on October 15, 2009. [4][5] Seeborg was confirmed by the full Senate on December 24, 2009. [6]
Seeborg received a rating of "Unanimously Well Qualified" from the American Bar Association. [7]
Judiciary Committee hearing
Seeborg had a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 23, 2009. The Committee voted to forward his nomination to the full Senate on October 15, 2009, and his nomination was confirmed on December 24, 2009. [7]
Notable cases
Facebook privacy
| United States District Court for the Northern District of California *Lane vs. Facebook INC No. C 08-3845 RS |
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| Judge Seeborg presided in a case over privacy issues involving the widely-used social networking site Facebook. A lawsuit was filed in 2007 over a application called Beacon that kept track of a person's purchasing habits and web browsing activity. As part of the settlement, Facebook agreed to start a non-profit organization to advocate web privacy instead of splitting the money between 1.3 million plantiffs.[8] |
See also
External links
- Judge Seeborg's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center
- List of judges of the Northern District of California
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 White House Press Release "President Obama Nominates Edward Milton Chen, Dolly Gee and Richard Seeborg to Serve on the District Court Bench", August 7, 2009
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Los Angeles Times "Obama names four new federal judges for California" August 9, 2009
- ↑ San Francisco Chronicle "Confirmation votes set for judge nominees", October 17, 2009
- ↑ Barbara Boxer Press Release "Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Los Angeles Attorney Dolly Gee for U.S. District Court", October 15, 2009
- ↑ Metropolitan News-Enterprise "Senate Committee Approves Nominees for Federal Courts", October 16, 2009
- ↑ Seeborg Biography at the Federal Judicial Center.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Judicial Nomination Materials
- ↑ BusinessWeek "Facebook wins approval to create privacy group", March 17, 2010
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Maxine Chesney |
Northern District of California 2010–Current Seat #3 |
Succeeded by: NA |
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: Claudia Wilken • William Alsup • Jeremy Fogel • Phyllis Hamilton • Susan Illston • Jeff White • Richard Seeborg • Edward Chen • Edward J. Davila • Lucy H. Koh • Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers • Jon S. Tigar • William Orrick III | ||
| Senior judges |
Thelton Henderson • William Schwarzer • Saundra Armstrong • Charles Breyer • Maxine Chesney • Ronald Whyte • Delwen Jensen • Samuel Conti • | ||
| Magistrate judges | Bernard Zimmerman • Joseph Spero • Howard Lloyd • Elizabeth LaPorte • Maria-Elena James • Paul S. Grewal • Kandis Westmore • Laurel Beeler • Jacqueline Scott Corley • Nathanael Cousins • Donna Ryu • Nandor Vadas • | ||
| Former Article III judges |
Dal Lemmon • Oliver Hamlin • Cecil Poole • Ogden Hoffman • William Morrow • John Jefferson DeHaven • William Cary Van Fleet • Maurice Timothy Dooling • John Slater Partridge • Vaughn Walker • Marilyn Patel • James Ware • Frank Henry Kerrigan • Harold Louderback • Adolphus Frederic St. Sure • Michael Joseph Roche • Sherrill Halbert • Thomas MacBride • Martin Welsh • Robert Aguilar • Oliver Carter • Barbara Caulfield • Herbert Erskine • Monroe Friedman • Louis Goodman • George Harris • William Ingram • Charles Legge • Gerald Levin • Eugene Lynch • Edward Murphy • William Orrick • Robert Peckham • Charles Renfrew • Robert Schnacke • Fern Smith • William Sweigert • John Vukasin • Stanley Weigel • Spencer Williams • Patrica Trumbull • Albert Wollenberg • Alfonso Zirpoli • Lloyd Burke • Martin J. Jenkins • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
Vaughn Walker • Thelton Henderson • Marilyn Patel • James Ware • Michael Joseph Roche • Oliver Carter • Louis Goodman • George Harris • William Ingram • Robert Peckham • | ||
